On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:51:23PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:55:49AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > There's the argument that a normal system should have all or nothing > > of the upstream perl distribution installed. Although we're sort of > > violating that already with the missing libperl.so symlink, a missing > > ExtUtils::Embed is a somewhat clearer case of "crippling perl." > > > > TBH, after the last time I tried to split out the dual lived modules [1] > > I don't have much enthusiasm in pursuing such changes. > > > > I'm slightly inclined to keep the status quo with ExtUtils::EMbed until > > (if?) things change with the dual lived modules, but YMMV. > > Right, yes, I understand your position. In that case the other > possible fix for this bug would be to patch ExtUtils::Embed to detect > the missing libperl-dev files (this is not a high priority item). Note that we already patch the documentation noting that libperl-dev is needed on Debian, debian/extutils_hacks.diff, and we should keep that. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
