unite perl and perl-modules?

[Jeremiah Foster]

On Oct 20, 2009, at 21:52, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:

> 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?

I think this is an excellent idea. I think the perl, perl-modules  
dichotomy is confusing, and fixing this will help users. Thanks for  
taking on this and let me know if there is anything I can do Eugene,  
like testing or what have you.

Regards,

Jeremiah