Bug#752797: libconfig-model-perl: Should split library from command

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Dominique Dumont <dod at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2014 13:00:52 you wrote:
>> The lib*-perl namespace is (or at least should be) for perl libraries, not
>> for end user binaries.
>>
>> The cme command should live in its own package,
>
> Err, why ? What is the problem you're trying to solve ?

The problem is that as an end user I couldn't care less that the
command I use (cme) is written in perl, or it has a public module
associated with it. In my particular case, I have limited space, so I
regularly crawl the lib* namespace to remove unused stuff (mostly by
marking as automatic). This package is confusing because despite the
name, it contains a binary that I do want.

>
> Some people will argue that a new binary package will be created for a small
> script.
>
> What do people on debian-perl think ? Should cme live in its own binary
> package ?
>
>> and it should Recommend
>> all the parser modules (libconfig-model-*-perl), as cme is quite useless
>> without specific parser modules.
>
> Parser modules are targeted for specific applications and are useless without
> this specific application. For instance libconfig-model-lcdproc is useless
> without lcdproc. Currently, libconfig-model-perl suggests
> libconfig-model-dpkg-perl, libconfig-model-openssh-perl .

Which is why they should be Recommends and not Depends.

-- 

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler