Bug#505289: perl: Please provide sysexits.ph

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 02:49:37PM -0200, Martín Ferrari wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:57, Niko Tyni <ntyni at 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