Bug#499128: no re.pl installed with libdevel-repl-perl

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| gregor herrmann, Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 02:45:03PM +0200 |=-
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:33:16 -0400, Mateu X. Hunter wrote:
> 
> > I just installed version 1.002001-2 of package libdevel-repl-perl and
> > found that it did not install re.pl.  I had to use CPAN to get re.pl
> > installed.
> 
> According to http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/libdevel-repl-perl/filelist
> it is installed as /usr/share/doc/libdevel-repl-perl/examples/re.pl
> 
> re.pl is explicitly moved from /usr/bin to
> /usr/share/doc/libdevel-repl-perl/examples/ in debian/rules during
> package build.
> 
> And I'm a bit reluctant to install a script with such a generic name
> into /usr/bin/, I have to admit ...
> (And the .pl extension would not conform with Debian Policy in
> /usr/bin which would leave us with /usr/bin/re ...)

... which is already provided by the `re' package (with very different 
semantics).

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