unite perl and perl-modules?

Eugene V. Lyubimkin jackyf at debian.org
Tue Oct 20 19:52:43 UTC 2009


Hello Perl maintainers!

After a private discussion with Niko Tyni, I am stepping as Perl co-maintainer
for Debian.

The topic which I want to arise today is dealing with #495394, an important
bug about circular dependency 'perl <-> perl-modules'. I propose to unite
these two into one 'perl' package.

Pros:

1. No circular dependency anymore.
2. No more name confusion ('perl' isn't a whole Perl, and both 'perl' and
'perl-modules' contain Perl modules).
3. One less version entry in Packages.

Cons:

1. +15 MiB to each architecture mirror, as new 'perl' package will be
architecture:any.
2. ~132 packages in unstable need to be updated to (build-)depend on perl, not
perl-modules.
3. new 'Conflicts: perl-modules' entry in the 'perl' package

Is there something I missed? Thoughts?

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer

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