Axel Thimm wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:58:27AM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: >> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 06:29, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>>>>>>> "TC" == Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> TC> Since perl is special, perl packages are exempt from the >>> TC> requirement for -devel packages for .h header files. >>> >>> I'm definitely for for this, although I wish someone who truly >>> understands why arch-specific Perl modules need a .h file could >>> explain it to us. For all I know it doesn't actually need to be >>> packaged. >> They're installed for the usual reasons - something requires them, usually at >> build time. See for example perl-DBI and perl-DBD-MySQL; the latter needs >> DBI's *.h to build, ditto probably all other perl-DBD-*. >> >> Rather than blanket approval for the status quo, I think it would be better to >> first discuss whether -devel packages for some perl modules should be >> introduced instead. > > Does anyone know about how many perl packages we're talking about? If > it's a small number I'd go with Ville and have them properly split out > their *-devel. It's much cleaner that way. If it involves major > surgery then we'd have to let this pass though, but I assume it will > affect only a few. > > The packages I've seen carrying *.h files are mostly not suited > becoming perl- prefixed anyway (in a monolithic package) as they are > carrying more than modules. Perl packages that include .h files (excluding the core perl) Core: 2 perl packages perl-DBI perl-PDL Extras: 16 perl packages perl-Cairo perl-Event perl-Glib perl-Gnome2-Canvas perl-Gnome2-GConf perl-Gnome2-Print perl-Gnome2-VFS perl-Gtk2 perl-Gtk2-GladeXML perl-Gtk2-Notify perl-Gtk2-Sexy perl-Gtk2-Spell perl-Gtk2-TrayIcon perl-Imager perl-Tk perl-Wx jpo -- José Pedro Oliveira * mailto: jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx * http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo * * gpg fingerprint = F9B6 8D87 859D 1C94 48F0 84C0 9749 9EB5 91BD 851B *
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