Bug#81547: dh_perl should detect dependencies on perl modules

2005-11-07 Thread Florian Ragwitz
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:32:02PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Florian Ragwitz wrote: > > could you please explain why you marked this bug as wontfix? > > Because debhelper is not the place to put complex dependency analysis > code like you describe, especially since that would make it unavailable >

Bug#81547: dh_perl should detect dependencies on perl modules

2005-11-07 Thread Joey Hess
Florian Ragwitz wrote: > could you please explain why you marked this bug as wontfix? Because debhelper is not the place to put complex dependency analysis code like you describe, especially since that would make it unavailable to packages that do not use debhelper. Follow the dpkg-shlibdeps model

Bug#81547: dh_perl should detect dependencies on perl modules

2005-11-05 Thread Florian Ragwitz
Hello, could you please explain why you marked this bug as wontfix? Because of the nature of perl5 it isn't possible to really know what modules need to be installed to make the application work. But there are good heuristics to do so. Only a small fraction of the perl modules and applications lo