Bug#757891: init-system-helpers: Please do not depend on perl

[Michael Biebl]

Am 12.08.2014 21:15, schrieb Niko Tyni:

> The perl-base package is Essential:yes, so inclusion there is pretty
> close to a promise of supporting that interface forever inside the
> Essential set.  So care must be taken when adding functionality there.
> IMO Perl reimplementations of /usr/bin/find, /usr/bin/basename,
> /bin/mkdir -p, and /bin/rm -r don't seem very good candidates.

Why not? Can you elaborate?

Apparently postgresql would also benefit if those modules where moved
into perl-base so it doesn't need to re-implement that functionality.

> What's the dependency from rsyslog to init-system-helpers for?
> Is there any room for movement there?

The init-system-helpers dependency is there to ensure the systemd
service is properly registered upon installation and removed on
uninstall and it takes care of starting/stopping/restarting the service.

I do not see a compelling to re-implement that functionality in the
rsyslog maintainer scripts. So, no, I have no desire to switch away from
init-system-helpers.

Michael



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