On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:55:47 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Gregor, Hi Helmut! > On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 06:51:35PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > thanks for taking the time to write this long and detailed email! > Thanks for having taken the time to read such a long email. Thanks again for writing up all this information, and sorry for my very late reply. There's just one point I want to add today: > I also see a spectrum of modifications to the module implementation that > would change the equation. > A. Reimplement pkg-config entirely in Perl avoiding the need to depend > on pkg-config. This already exists: https://metacpan.org/dist/PkgConfig and is even packaged as libpkgconfig-perl, which contains /usr/bin/ppkg-config. > All of these approaches have in common that we avoid requiring > pkg-config:$DEB_HOST_ARCH and can work with pkgconf-bin, which happens > to be M-A:foreign and thus allows our module to also be M-A:foreign. /usr/bin/ppkg-config is even pure perl, parsing .pc files itself. No pkg-config, no pkgconf-bin, no pkgconf, only dependency perl:any. Replacing pkg-config with ppkg-config in libextutils-pkgconfig-perl would be trivial. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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