Hi Joenio, I see that you've updated or added - libalien-autotools-perl - libalien-base-perl - libshell-guess-perl to our git repos, where - libalien-autotools-perl is new and at "unstable"; - libalien-base-perl is at "UNRELEASED" and was originally packaged by C.J. Collier, and the changelog still has my notes that the package was not needed at that time; and - libshell-guess-perl is at "unstable" and also originally packaged by C.J. Collier Before I take a closer look at the packages, I'd like to check if and what for they are needed. libshell-guess-perl looks harmless in general, so no objections if it's needed for something (which turned out not to be the case some time ago). The whole Alien::* namespace make me a bit unhappy. As I understand it the purpose is to download and build "alien", i.e. non-CPAN, software, and that's something we neither need nor want in Debian. -- I know that we already have some Alien::* pieces but I'd rather not add more unless it's really necessary. libalien-autotools-perl's description e.g. says: Alien::Autotools looks for minimum versions of the tools that make up the "GNU build system": autoconf, automake, and libtool. For each tool that is not found or below the minimum version, it is downloaded, compiled and installed it to the Alien-Autotools distribution's shared directory. That's not necessary in Debian, and probably also won't happen due to the dependencies you already added. If Alien::Autotools is a dependency of something else you'd like to package, then I suggest to check if it can be patched out there and replaced with proper dependencies on autoconf, automake, and libtool. Otherwise I think at least the description should be updated to say that the package just pulls in the dependencies (instead of the build+download part). As for Alien::Base, I also hope we can avoid at :) Happy to hear what others think about the Alien::* situation! Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Michael Penn: Whole Truth
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