Debian Bug report logs - #49287
debhelper: dh_perl should work the same magic lintian does

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Package: debhelper; Maintainer for debhelper is Debhelper Maintainers <debhelper-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>; Source for debhelper is src:debhelper (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: broonie@sirena.org.uk

Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 19:48:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Merged with 81547

Found in version 2.0.68

Done: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>:
Bug#49287; Package debhelper. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to broonie@debian.org:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Joey Hess <joeyh@master.debian.org>. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: broonie@debian.org
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Subject: debhelper: dh_perl should work the same magic lintian does
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 19:45:34 +0000
Package: debhelper
Version: 2.0.68
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if dh_perl were able to perform more advanced
dependancy checking than it currently does by looking through any
scripts it finds for module uses and adding dependancies on the
appropriate packages.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux damiel 2.2.10 #10 Thu Aug 26 16:58:11 BST 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages debhelper depends on:
ii  file            3.27-4         Determines file type using "magic" numbers
ii  fileutils       4.0-2          GNU file management utilities.
ii  perl            5.004.05-2     Fake package used for a smooth upgrade
ii  perl-5.004      5.004.05-3     Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
	^^^ (Provides virtual package perl5)


Merged 49287 81547. Request was from Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Tags added: wontfix Request was from Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug submitter from broonie@debian.org to broonie@sirena.org.uk. Request was from broonie@sirena.org.uk (Mark Brown) to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Message #12 received at 81547-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
To: 81547-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: dh_perl should detect dependencies on perl modules
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 17:23:00 +0000
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:32:02 -0500 Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> Florian Ragwitz wrote:
> > could you please explain why you marked this bug as wontfix?
> 
> Because debhelper is not the place to put complex dependency analysis
> code like you describe, especially since that would make it unavailable
> to packages that do not use debhelper. Follow the dpkg-shlibdeps model.
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo


This bug has been wontfix'ed for 10 years now and accordingly I think it
make sense to just close it.

Thanks,
~Niels




Bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <owner@bugs.debian.org> to internal_control@bugs.debian.org. (Sun, 30 Oct 2016 07:32:30 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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