[Aptitude-devel] Enquiry about libdpkg-perl alternatives

[Guillem Jover]

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Hi!

I was checking for perl implementations of things provided now by
libdpkg-perl and I see there's several of them, I'd like to canvas the
reasons for the existence of those in case it's due to deficiencies in
libdpkg-perl for example. In the same way, I'm interested in the
reasons the users of those modules had when chosing them instead of
libdpkg-perl?

Also if there's interest, I'm happy to discuss possible missing feature
merge-backs and possible transition handling to deprecate some of the
modules. For example the changelog parsing implementation in libdpkg-perl
was merged a while back from the one in libparse-debianchangelog-perl,
but I think some of the output formatters are still missing there.

The current modules list and their users I've got includes:

 * libdpkg-parse-perl
   - dh-make-perl
 * libparse-debcontrol-perl
   - customdeb
   - dh-haskell
   - duck
   - libdebian-copyright-perl
   - libdebian-source-perl
 * libparse-debianchangelog-perl
   - aptitude
   - customdeb
   - dh-haskell
   - dh-make-perl
   - license-reconcile
   - lintian
   - pkg-perl-tools
 * libparse-debian-packages-perl
   - multistrap
 * libdebian-source-perl
   - dh-elpa
   - dh-make-perl
 * libdebian-copyright-perl
   - license-reconcile
   - pkg-components
   - pkg-perl-tools
 * libconfig-model-dpkg-perl (parts)

Feedback, much appreciated!

Thanks,
Guillem