Quoting Daniel Lintott (2014-05-30 17:49:35) > With regards to bug #734123, what is the groups' feeling on packaging > libxml-libxml-devel-setlinenumber-perl given the following on the > metacpan page[0]: > >> DESCRIPTION >> >> This module exports one function: >> >> set_line_number($node, $number) >> >> Sets a node's line number. >> >> Why in name of all that is good and holy would you want to do that? >> Frankly, you probably don't. And you probably shouldn't. >> >> There's just about one sitution where it makes sense. If you are, >> say, writing a parser for a non-XML format that happens to have an >> XML-like data model, then you might wish to parse your format into an >> XML::LibXML document with elements, attributes and so on. And you >> might want all those nodes to return the correct line numbers when >> the line_number method is called on them. Say, for instance that >> you're working on HTML::HTML5::Parser. >> THIS MODULE IS WELL DODGY >> >> And you're a fool if you use it.
I'd say don't package until someone expresses a real need for it. ...as for the bugreport, I'd say keep it open: The bug is real but also not severe (i.e. minor as correctly set originally). - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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