Bug#651671: Please rename the package (Perl policy violation)

[Dmitry E. Oboukhov]

>> I spent much time to find the package. I even thought to build the
>> package by myself, but apt-file helped me to find the package.
>> 
>> Traditionally perl modules are named as lib<module-name>-perl [1]
>> 
>> so It would be nice to rename the module to
>>   libtwiggy-perl

> IIRC, at the time this was uploaded for the first time, it was decided to
> rename the package this way because it was mainly inteneded to be used as
> standalone application (as per group's policy [0]). Same goes for the
> starman package.

> This [1] is what I found with a quick search, but I couldn't find the
> specific discussion about twiggy and starman use.

Now the package is well alternative to libanyevent-httpd. So there
will appear many projects dependig on libtwiggy-perl.
:)

>> The module aslo contains /usr/bin/twiggy. It could be left
>> in module 'twiggy'.
>> 
>> So It would be nice to have two packages:
>> 
>> [...]

> I don't think splitting the package this way makes much sense given that the
> twiggy script is quite minimal. In the case this is going to be renamed,
> the package libtwiggy-perl should just "Provides: twiggy".

I think that package size means little. If somebody needs twiggy
script he will seek 'twiggy' package. If he needs Twiggy module he will
seek 'libtwiggy-perl' package. So I think it is worth to split package
anymore.

Now Debian has already have one package that depends on twiggy.
And it uses it as library (external module). So the project (probably)
needn't twiggy script :)

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