Package: perl Version: 5.24.1~rc3-3 Severity: wishlist Hi,
I was looking at #758847, which asks to run 'enc2xs -C' after installation of Encode::* packages so that Encode is informed about all encodings that are currently installed. (This has previously been mentioned in bugs such as #304433, even though that was really a different problem.) This seems to be a sensible request IMHO, but would need to be done for all libencode-*-perl packages as well as perl itself, and thus should be thought through a little bit before implementation. 'enc2xs -C' is implemented in make_configlocal_pm(); it searches @INC for installed Encode::* modules and then writes out the result as /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm using /usr/share/perl/5.24/Encode/ConfigLocal_PM.e2x as template, basically creating a long list of 'require Encode::...' statements. Processing is rather fast, so this wouldn't necessarily need a dpkg trigger but could be run from postinst / postrm. On the other hand I wonder how Encode reacts if one of the modules is removed and Encode is called _before_ 'enc2xs -C' has been run again? Niko mentioned on IRC that the ConfigLocal.pm should probably go in /var and be symlinked into @INC. Encode itself doesn't seem to run 'enc2xs -C' during installation, nor does it mention it in its README. Is ConfigLocal.pm only meant for home-made encodings? Florian
