Robin Norwood wrote:
Hi,
I got an email from one of the maintainers of Net::DNS (Dick Franks)
about one of my recent changelog entries. I had (incorrectly) removed
perl(Net::IP) from the BuildRequires because I read in the upstream
changelog that it was no longer required. I had to revert that change
because it *was* still required by Net::DNS::Nameserver. Dick suggested
that I could split Net::DNS::Nameserver out into a subpackage.
Net::DNS::Nameserver is what you expect it is - a simple DNS server.
I don't know if it's worth it, or if it's wise this late in the release
cycle for F8. What do y'all think?
Here's the patch:
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perl(Net::IP) is still a BuildRequire, but not a requirement for the
base package any longer. It makes sense to split out 'Server' bits, but
OTOH, it's just one .pm file and a small dep.
I'd keep everything in one package, for two reasons:
1. Net::IP is only a small module that doesn't pull in any additional
dependencies, so there's not a big saving in splitting things up to
avoid a dependency on it (especially when considering the additional
metadata needed for a subpackage in the repo).
2. People installing perl-Net-DNS will probably be expecting to find the
entire module distribution in that package, and not have to go looking
for a subpackage for Net::DNS::Nameserver. I don;t think there's much
precedent for splits like this (apart from the main perl package itself
of course).
Paul.
