Bug#637681: Please install dpkg-report as a proper program

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 18:58:52 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> Package: libdpkg-log-perl
> Version: 1.20-2
> Severity: normal

> currently dpkg-report is shipped as an example (compressed too), shilw it would
> make sense to ship it as a "real" tool, that can be used from the command-line.
> If you wonder if it's worth a new bin pkg, as already stated on your blog, no,
> you can keep ship it in the lib pkg but in /usr/bin .

I'd kindly ask not to fulfill this request, to avoid taking over the
dpkg namespace (and divering CLI conventions, etc). In addition I'd
rather see the libdpkg-log-perl modules merged back into libdpkg-perl,
and the possible dpkg-report (or other name) provided by some of the
packages from the dpkg source, but not dpkg itself due to it not
wanting perl dependencies (or the program would need to be rewritten
in sh or C).

thanks,
guillem