On Wed, 2019-08-07 at 16:19:30 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Guillem Jover wrote: > > Some of the features got removed, to trim down dependencies, and the > > API adapted to match the rest of the libdpkg-perl codebase, but if > > the removed output formats are needed, or anything else seems > > suboptimal or worth improving/adding, I'm happy to work on those. > > What I quickly checked a few weeks ago was if libdpkg-perl has an > equivalent of parsechangelog which is used in aptitude. But it hasn't, > so I didn't consider it to be a suitable replacement. > > And your patch against aptitude (see https://bugs.debian.org/934135) > uses "perl -MDpkg::Changelog::Parse -e …" which probably works well, > but having a drop-in replacement for /usr/bin/parsechangelog which is > not in dpkg-dev would be nice.
I'm not very fond of placing programs in lib.*-perl packages TBH. I've pondered in the past to split some of the tools out from dpkg-dev, but I'm not really sure it is worth it. And checking again, for the aptitude case I think a local aptitude-specific wrapper makes more sense. I'm sending a follow-up patch there. Thanks, Guillem
