On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 04:27:47PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > Its kind of unfortune that this removal will remove other packages > as well (and affect packages which do have users) > but I think we simply *can not* keep the packages in any suite.
The module in question is a Perl 47 liners that only does some syntactic
"sugar" (I'd question even that) for DBI relationships.
>>> quote from documentation >>>
Now instead of saying
BeerDB::Brewery->has_many(beers => "BeerDB::Beer");
BeerDB::Beer->has_a(brewery => "BeerDB::Brewery");
BeerDB::Handpump->has_a(beer => "BeerDB::Beer");
BeerDB::Handpump->has_a(pub => "BeerDB::Pub");
BeerDB::Pub->has_many(beers => [ BeerDB::Handpump => 'beer' ]);
BeerDB::Beer->has_many(pubs => [ BeerDB::Handpump => 'pub' ]);
Just say
$loader->relationship( "a brewery produces beers" );
$loader->relationship( "a pub has beers on handpumps" );
>>> end quote >>>
We are distributing this thing since 2004. Now you rush to remove it from
everywhere without caring about its reverse dependencies which would even
be easily fixable. If someone had dropped a bomb upon us with this it
would've exploded some time ago already.
I won't rush to remove this from stable and oldstable just yet. The timing
is a too unfortunate for this. Let's replace the few relationships with
sane lines and not drop packages out of stable in a hurry (i.e. 3h between
bug filing and removal from unstable are weird).
If the ftpmasters choose to overrule me, so be it, but I encourage them
to look at the simplicity of the package and what it does first. Yes,
there might be some regexps, but still.
> I've checked popcon for maypole and the package itself and they
> are below 100..
Not everyone believes^Wsubmits to popcon.
Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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