Bug#637681: Please install dpkg-report as a proper program

[Guillem Jover]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 08:38:43 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 07:56, Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 18:58:52 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> >> currently dpkg-report is shipped as an example (compressed too), shilw it would
> >> make sense to ship it as a "real" tool, that can be used from the command-line.
> >> If you wonder if it's worth a new bin pkg, as already stated on your blog, no,
> >> you can keep ship it in the lib pkg but in /usr/bin .
> >
> > I'd kindly ask not to fulfill this request, to avoid taking over the
> > dpkg namespace (and divering CLI conventions, etc). In addition I'd
> > rather see the libdpkg-log-perl modules merged back into libdpkg-perl,
> > and the possible dpkg-report (or other name) provided by some of the
> > packages from the dpkg source, but not dpkg itself due to it not
> > wanting perl dependencies (or the program would need to be rewritten
> > in sh or C).
> 
> I'd be happy with whatever outcome there will be (either make the
> program public or be merged into dpkg* pkg) but I do agree that this
> perl module and its companion tool seem better fitting into the dpkg*
> official packages.
> 
> Patrick: what are your feelings about this merge? Guillem: what are
> the steps needed to merge this package into some dpkg one?

I think most of this was already discussed in #608930, where Patrick
semeed fine with the idea.

regards,
guillem