On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:49:37PM -0200, MartÃn Ferrari wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:57, Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> wrote: > > > I'd really rather see something like > > > > http://pub.ks-and-ks.ne.jp/prog/SysExits.shtml > > > > packaged separately. To paraphrase Brendan O'Dea, the .ph files are an > > abomination that should go away. They have been reduced to a minimum > > on purpose. > > I don't have a preference on which one to have, but sysexits looks > like a candidate for the core package. In any case, an XS extension > just to provide constants looks as much an abomination as a .ph file > to me :)
Well, at least the C header is parsed by cpp in that case and not a less capable imitation written in Perl... In any case, <sysexits.h> is a trivial list of constants with a good use case, and I don't think it makes things any worse than they currently are. I'll add it for the next upload unless somebody (Brendan?) objects. -- Niko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
