-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBNCf8KY4wrq++1Ls5AQFxCgP/S+vVV7NASVLCd9voDxU7Y+BZnwRDHJ6m qebQnugsWN5NaHLjgGz7wB9tzxQT1/AlLreywhUDNYdkwJzQns25Ho1IlKfTD1RG UFhBtzdLPUZ4MDm9nj4jcGqDYnjS91wh7uUBNKdHnwfACWMz2W1irTWretoizMCj u0ASGG+XjJU= =rCox -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
