On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 03:12:32PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>
> So to summarise: for many years the perl package has provided
> /usr/bin/rename, a stanalone utility implemented in perl. The issue is we
> don't want to provide the utility from the perl package any more because
> it's been added locally inside debian/ and is not being maintained. A
> maintained version is available as a separate package, libfile-rename-perl.
>
> The proposals on the table are:
>
> 1) Have perl Depend on libfile-rename-perl (and therefore have the
> latter become Priority: standard)
> 2) Make libfile-rename-perl be Standard, to match perl, without adding
> any dependencies.
> 3) Have perl Recommend libfile-rename-perl for one release cycle and then
> drop it
> - optionally with a warning being emitted by the built-in script
> 4) 2) + 3) combined.
>
> Option 1 would imply that the utility is fundamentally a part of
> using perl, which since it's a standalone command line program which
> happens to be written in perl, seems wrong.
>
> Option 2 is my preferred option because it seems like the 'least surprise'
> option. 4) can be considered a mostly-harmless enhancement to that,
> although adding warnings could be irritating or harmful in some
> circumstances.
>
> Any further thoughts or alternative options?
The usual solution would be 1) for jessie and then simply drop that
dependency after jessie:
It removes the risk that someone upgrading from wheezy to jessie will
have troubles due to rename being gone. No warnings required, since
libfile-rename-perl will simply stay installed in jessie+1 for such
users.
No Depends/Recommends/Suggests from perl to libfile-rename-perl is
required after jessie, since perl doesn't need it and the dependency
was only for upgrades.
Whether or not /usr/bin/rename should be part of a standard installation
in jessie+1 and later is a separate discussion, and nothing that should
be implemented through a dependency from perl.
> Cheers,
> Dominic.
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
