Bug#519591: "apt-cache search MIME::Words" does not find libmime-tools-perl

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 22:28:15 +0300, Nikolay Shaplov wrote:

> > We would have to list all the provided modules for each of our
> > packages - which is clearly not doable (as several packages have
> > hundreds of modules).
> > You should do this query with apt-file instead.

> Yeah, you are right, there might be too many modules in one package,
> and too many text should be added to package description.
> May be not all modules should be mentioned in it. For example if
> MIME::Parser::Reader is an internal part of MIME::Parser, or just
> simply useless without MIME::Parser, then it should not be mentioned...
> (I do not know the specific of these modules, may be I am wrong). If
> there is for sure no project that would require MIME::Parser::Reader
> only (without MIME::Parser) then MIME::Parser::Reader should be omitted.

I agree with your reasoning, and for packages maintained by the
pkg-perl group we try to add the module name to the package's long
description for new packages and for new upstream versions. We've
also modified dh-make-perl to do s/This module/Module::Name/ when
creating a package.

Unfortunately there are still quite a few "old" package which don't
have the module name in the long description ...
 
> But as for my case, project I work with asks just for MIME::Words, and
> I were trying to install it for it.

I'm afraid this is really a difficult case, since this package
contains way too many single modules.
 
BTW: Apart from "apt-file search Module/Name.pm" you can also use
"dh-make-perl --locate Module::Name".

Cheers,
gregor
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