Hi Marcelo!
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 22:55:38 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
> needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
> can't find the reference anymore.
The main reasons for this are to not be subject to
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:23:54PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> The more recent reference is in http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap
Thanks!
Marcelo
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On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 12:20:52PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> The two cases I can think of are splitting an archive that
> splits to a single piece, splitting to multiple pieces and
> some failure cases.
Right now I do something lik
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>
> > somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
> > needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
> > can't find the reference anymore.
>
> I could only find approx one refer
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 01:19:33AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1].
Ah, yes, that was it, thanks! Removing Perl from the essential
set. While going to bed, I actually figured that was the reason
why I wasn't finding perl in the depende
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder writes:
>> Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2].
>
> Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which means that people
> are already familiar with the Perl test harness, you may want to consider
> using my C TAP Harness framework for writi
Jonathan Nieder writes:
> Some test cases (or methods for producing them) would make me very
> happy. dpkg doesn’t have enough automated tests of basic functionality.
> Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2].
Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which means that people
ar
Hi,
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
> needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
> can't find the reference anymore.
I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1].
Luckily, even if that doesn’t pan out
Hi,
somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
can't find the reference anymore. Oddly enough I don't see a
dependency of dpkg on perl either:
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.6.1
Replaces: manpages-de (<= 0.4-3),
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