(I CC this mail to debian-policy and to Klee. Hope you don't mind.)
On 23 Sep 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> Christian Schwarz, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
> >Do you have a decision about which modules will be included in perl-base?
> >I really would like to have dpkg-perl merged into perl-base.
>
> Right now, it's just the modules that were announced. If you have a
> burning desire to add something else and it's small, it can probably be
> arranged. You've got a little over a week to decide.
>
> I'm not sure why you'd want to have dpkg-perl on every debian system.
> It looks more like a development package rather than a general use one.
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.
(For example, the tetex-* packages check for old tex packages in their
preinst scripts. The check is currently done by calling "dpkg -l" but this
is definitely to slow. With dpkg-perl this can be implemented much
faster.)
Klee, what do you think about this? I see the following options:
a) place dpkg-perl into "base" and tag it "Essential"
b) move the modules from dpkg-perl into perl-base
c) make tetex-* predepend on dpkg-perl
d) keep everything as it is now (i.e. use "dpkg -l")
It would be good to here a few comments about this.
Thanks,
Chris
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