On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:15:41PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:07:38AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li writes:
There are a couple of other things which use /etc/perl, from only a
brief look at the perl debian/changelog
On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 10:07 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
As for libnet.cfg and ParserDetails.ini, both of those seem to me more
like minor bugs than something to bless in Policy. They could equally
well (barring transition issues) go in something like /etc/libnet-perl
and /etc/libxml-sax-perl
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes:
I'm OK with the wording about 'Configuration Modules', and I agree that
Debian packages should not ship regular modules in /etc/perl. Maybe a
footnote about recommending other configuration formats over arbitrary
Perl code would alleviate Steve's concern?
Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li writes:
There are a couple of other things which use /etc/perl, from only a
brief look at the perl debian/changelog (/etc/perl/CPAN and
/etc/perl/CPANPLUS). Those files are created by a local administrator
(using the tools shipped).
Here's what I currently
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 09:07:38AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li writes:
There are a couple of other things which use /etc/perl, from only a
brief look at the perl debian/changelog (/etc/perl/CPAN and
/etc/perl/CPANPLUS). Those files are created by a local
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:05:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Hello, Perl folks (particularly perl package maintainers),
There is a long-standing bug against Policy to document that /etc/perl is
added to the module search path, and indeed that is the behavior of Perl
currently. However, in
Dominic Hargreaves d...@earth.li writes:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:05:53AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
I also did a search on packages.debian.org, and as near as I can
determine there are no packages in Debian sid that install files under
/etc/perl other than perl-modules (for libnet.cfg),
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 05:06:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
Is it correct to say that packages should not ship modules in /etc/perl,
or is that too strong?
I agree that packages should not ship modules in /etc/perl. I cannot
think of a circumstance where a package would have to ship a
Hello, Perl folks (particularly perl package maintainers),
There is a long-standing bug against Policy to document that /etc/perl is
added to the module search path, and indeed that is the behavior of Perl
currently. However, in discussing that change, Bill observed:
Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:15:28PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi,
Ansgar Burchardt noticed:
perl/5.8.0-7 added /etc/perl to @INC:
* Prepend /etc/perl to @INC to provide a standard location for
configuration modules:
But this addition has never been documented in the
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:15:28 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I see this has been seconded by
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org (message #25)
and I imagine that Russ might be willing to second this, but that
still leaves us one DD short[1]. Seconds? Objections?
Clarifications?
diff --git
Hi,
Ansgar Burchardt noticed:
perl/5.8.0-7 added /etc/perl to @INC:
* Prepend /etc/perl to @INC to provide a standard location for
configuration modules:
But this addition has never been documented in the Debian Perl Policy.
Russ Allbery wrote:
Good point. Here's updated proposed
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 08:15:28PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Ansgar Burchardt noticed:
perl/5.8.0-7 added /etc/perl to @INC:
* Prepend /etc/perl to @INC to provide a standard location for
configuration modules:
But this addition has never been documented in the Debian Perl
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:45:38AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Good point. Here's updated proposed wording.
diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
index 3b76b94..03e5dfb 100644
--- a/perl-policy.sgml
+++ b/perl-policy.sgml
@@ -128,17 +128,27 @@
sect id=paths
Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org writes:
The last paragraph seems redundant to me. I suggest dropping it.
Otherwise it all looks good to me.
Good point. Here's updated proposed wording.
diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
index 3b76b94..03e5dfb 100644
--- a/perl-policy.sgml
+++
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 07:20:55PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org writes:
I suggest to add /etc/perl to the list of location in the Module Path
section.
Here's an expanded patch that documents what I believe to be the intended
purpose of adding that to
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org writes:
perl/5.8.0-7 added /etc/perl to @INC:
* Prepend /etc/perl to @INC to provide a standard location for
configuration modules:
But this addition has never been documented in the Debian Perl Policy.
I suggest to add /etc/perl to the list of
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.0.0
Severity: minor
Hi,
perl/5.8.0-7 added /etc/perl to @INC:
* Prepend /etc/perl to @INC to provide a standard location for
configuration modules:
But this addition has never been documented in the Debian Perl Policy.
I suggest to add /etc/perl to the
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