Bug#621062: libwww-perl: Please move the remaining modules to a new liblwp-perl

[Nicholas Bamber]

tag 621062 +wontfix
thanks

Adrian,
	I think you do us an injustice here.

	First of all it is true that HTML::Form and HTTP::Daemon are not 
required by any of the LWP modules. In recognition of this we did not 
include dependencies on libhttp-daemon-perl and libhtml-form-perl. Those 
packages are however recommendations and you may wish to turn off the 
automatic installation of recommendations to stop bringing those in.

	However the others are all required as far as we can see. If we have 
made a mistake on that, please let us know the specifics and we will 
consider downgrading it to a recommendation.

	There is a slight complication with LWP::Protocol::https. As of 6.02 
that is not strictly required by libwww-perl. We held back from 
upgrading to 6.02 because that amount of change introduced circular 
dependencies and considerable complexity and risk. When it is split off 
we are minded to maintain a full dependency because that module might be 
required with *NO* *explicit* dependency documented in the code.In short 
breaking that dependency might break secure code in unpredictable ways.

	This transition has already taken a fair amount effort. We have had to 
raise about twenty bug reports due to the change in provided modules. 
Renaming a package would cause more unnecessary confusion.

Nicholas

On 06/04/11 08:47, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Package: libwww-perl
> Version: 6.01-2
> Severity: wishlist
>
> After the current splitup, it is impossible for a package to depend on
> only the modules in libwww-perl without pulling in all the others.
>
> Please move these modules to a new package (e.g. named liblwp-perl) so
> that other packages can depend on exactly what they need.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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