Bug#475160: ITP: ASCIIO - draw ASCII diagrams dynamically

[Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>]

On Mar 19, 2010, at 12:11 PM, David Paleino wrote:

 please keep the bug CCed, so we can publicly keep history of the ITP.
> 
> On Friday 19 March 2010 12:03:37, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
>> On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:57 AM, David Paleino wrote:

>  I do not see a real problem about depending on missing modules -- we 
> just need them packaged.
> Here's my plan: I'm going to check what packages are exactly need to build/run 
> asciio, and file RFPs. That's because I don't really want to maintain Perl 
> modules just because they happen to be dependencies to a package I want to 
> maintain. In case those RFPs aren't picked up by the Debian Perl Team, I'm 
> available to make them ITPs, and maintain them "pro tempore".
> 
> From a quick analysis, I see that it's "only" missing 3 dependencies:
> 
> - Eval::Context
> - Data::TreeDumper::Renderer::GTK
> - Directory::Scratch::Structured
> 
> Sure, these might need other modules to work, and that's why the "blocking" 
> mechanism exists. We just need to climb up the dependency chain until it's 
> satisfied.
> 
>> Let me know what you want me to do to help - I think there are still a
>> bunch of dependencies. If you want we can split them up and I'll try to
>> keep up with you?
> 
> What exactly needs to be split up from the code?

I was only referring to splitting up the work of packaging modules from CPAN. I don't believe the code needs any splitting.

Jeremiah