On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 09:23:17AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:41:50PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Am 12.08.2014 21:15, schrieb Niko Tyni: > > > The perl-base package is Essential:yes, so inclusion there is pretty > > > close to a promise of supporting that interface forever inside the > > > Essential set. So care must be taken when adding functionality there. > > > IMO Perl reimplementations of /usr/bin/find, /usr/bin/basename, > > > /bin/mkdir -p, and /bin/rm -r don't seem very good candidates. > > > > Why not? Can you elaborate? [...] > But yeah, I may be making too big a fuss about just a few modules at 150kB.
No, I don't think so. It's technically very easy to add features and size to an Essential: yes package every here and then, but very hard -if not impossible- to remove, just as you said. So, I very appreciate your thoroughness and wish that all developers maintaining essential packages, and those of priority required and important, show this sense of responsibility. Thanks, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
