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

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| gregor herrmann, Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 05:39:35PM +0200 |=-
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:23:29 -0400, Mateu X. Hunter wrote:
> 
> > For what it's worth, here's a comment from 'mst' the author of the
> > module.
> > "the .pl in re.pl shouldn't be considered to be a suffix, it's simply
> > part of the name of the script"
> 
> Right, in this case that might be a valid reason for an exception.

I somehow don't believe that the dot is also part of the name. The dot 
is there to emphasize on the fact that this is a Perl implementation, 
contrary to what the Policy suggests.

> Hm, "setup_commands". There's a patch in the Debian package of
> Devel::REPL that touches this ...
> 
> Ok, building the package without the patch fixes the problem.

Good catch!

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