Bug#823067: dh-make-perl: please split Debian::Control into a separate binary package

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 06:54:00 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:

> Debian::Control is independently useful.  Please consider splitting it
> into its own binary package, e.g. libdebian-control-perl.

This sounds like a reasonable idea, thanks for the proposal. - The
question is what exactly we split out into which new package(s);
currently the package contains the following modules (slightly
reordered):

-rw-r--r-- root/root      9026 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Config.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7381 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Utils.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1247 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/refresh_cache.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      6695 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/refresh.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1119 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/dump_config.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     49429 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/Packaging.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     27340 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/make.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2159 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/locate.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1312 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/Command/help.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4508 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl/PodParser.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2737 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/DhMakePerl.pm

-rw-r--r-- root/root     11784 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/AptContents.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     10725 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Rules.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2899 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/WNPP/Bug.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      5123 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/WNPP/Query.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     12697 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Dependency.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7084 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Dependencies.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4523 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/DpkgLists.pm

-rw-r--r-- root/root      5199 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2209 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control/Stanza/CommaSeparated.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      2592 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control/Stanza/Source.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      4551 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control/Stanza/Binary.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     19102 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control/FromCPAN.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7328 2016-04-11 23:04 ./usr/share/perl5/Debian/Control/Stanza.pm

The DhMakeperl::* namespace seems clear; and then we have Debian::Control* but also
other Debian::* modules, where we'd need to check high tightly they
are tied into dh-make-perl or how generic and usuable they are. (And
if we split out more, we need to think about a different name than
libdebian-control-perl).

Sean, do you need only Debian::Control::* o more?

Dam and others, what are your thoughts from the dh-make-perl
knowledge side?


Cheers,
gregor


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