Re: perl-base
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Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>(I CC this mail to debian-policy and to Klee. Hope you don't mind.)
Adding more people in is fine.
>dpkg-perl is a collection of Perl modules to access dpkg's databases. It
>can be used in postinst scripts to check for other packages, etc.
Okay. I'm not sure why you couldn't do this with dependencies but then
again, I'm currently confronted with a problem in less that I can't
solve that way, so...
>Klee, what do you think about this? I see the following options:
>
> a) place dpkg-perl into "base" and tag it "Essential"
That might work. Not many packages need it now, but I suspect if it was
available, more people might use it. 'Course this might also be a
problem since people may use dpkg-perl rather than the more static
methods that things like dpkg, dselect, dpkg-scanpackages, and deity
could use easier.
> b) move the modules from dpkg-perl into perl-base
The biggest problem that I see here is that dpkg-perl is still
"skeletal" according to its description. I'm not sure that perl package
releases would fit real well with the dpkg-perl releases. Possibly
since dpkg knows that perl-base will be installed, it could include
dpkg-perl in its package...
> c) make tetex-* predepend on dpkg-perl
If it looks like tetex is the only thing that uses it. I'm not sure
that this is/should be the case.
Darren
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