Bug#881714: libio-aio-perl: IO::AIO comes with a useful command line utility (a kind of fast find) which is not installed in the debian package

[gregor herrmann]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:54:52 +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote:

> Dear Maintainer,

Hi Marc,

thanks for contacting us, and sorry the late reply.
 
> the IO::AIO package comes with a utility called "treescan" which is
> installed when the package is installed by normal means.
> Apparently, the debian package moves it into the documetation folder as an
> example.

Right.
 
> While it might serve as an example (just like any application of any
> library might serve as an example) it's explicitgly not packages as an
> example - example files normally go into eg/, executable porgrams go into
> bin/ and are installed normally, so the debian package shouldn't change it
> into an example and not install it properly.

While I can't say for sure why it was originally installed as an
example instead of under /usr/bin, I see a small problem with moving
it now: The script doesn't have any documentation, and installing
"binaries" without manpages is a violation (of a "should") in Debian
Policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#manual-pages

If you can add a bit of POD to the script, I see no problem with
installing it into the "right" place.


Cheers,
gregor
 

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