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

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:44:03 +0300, Damyan Ivanov 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.

I think that this is a play on words: Devel::REPL -> REPL -> re.pl.
But of course "repl" would also be possible, and I'm still not
convinced that a basically one-line script is that helpful in
/usr/bin (and then there's still the missing manpage).
 
Cheers,
gregor 
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