On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 03:00:11PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 02:01:32PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > (cc'ing the perl and libio-socket-ip-perl package maintainers too) > > > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:09:43PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:19:33 +0000, Bob Ham wrote: > > > > > > > > > >A more pragmatic solution might be to use IO::Socket::IP instead. > > > > > > > > > > I see now that IO::Socket::INET is only intended for IPv4; I hadn't > > > > > realised that. This problem showed up because the > > > > > /usr/share/popularity-contest/popcon-upload script in > > > > > popularity-contest makes use of IO::Socket::INET. Perhaps this bug > > > > > could be reassigned to the popularity-contest package so that it can > > > > > be changed to use IO::Socket::IP instead? > > > > > This is very annoying because IO::Socket::INET is part of perl-base but > > > IO::Socket::IP is part of libio-socket-ip-perl. The whole design of > > > popcon-upload was to use only Essential pakages to keep a small footprint. > > > > > > Would it be possible to have at least IO::Socket::INET6 in perl-base ? > > > This would make perl-base IPv4/IPv6 agnostic. > > > > I believe the way forward is IO::Socket::IP, not IO::Socket::INET6. > > The upstream plan seems to be to get IO::Socket::IP into Perl core > > for 5.20, scheduled for May. If that happens, it makes sense to me > > to put that in perl-base along with the old IO::Socket::INET. > > > > https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=116433#txn-1275004 > > > > In the meanwhile, it looks like libio-socket-ip-perl could be made to > > depend only on perl-base, as it doesn't seem to use any modules outside > > that. I think the situation fits the 'exceptional circumstances' clause > > in the Perl policy. > > > > > > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-perl.html#s-base > > > > Bill, would you be OK adding a dependency on libio-socket-ip-perl if it > > didn't depend on perl/perl-modules ? > > Yes, it would be fine, if IO::Socket::IP is planned to be essential. > Thanks a lot!
I suspect this isn't quite what Niko was thinking. popcon-upload isn't itself Essential so it doesn't seem necessary to make the preference for only depending on Essential packages into a hard rule, I'd have thought? In fact, if we pull IO::Socket::IP into perl-base with perl 5.20, making libio-socket-ip-perl Essential now may actually be harmful. Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
