Bug#941982: libsys-info-base-perl: missing file Sys/Info.pm

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2019-10-08 16:03:40 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:47:50 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 
> > Package: libsys-info-base-perl
> > Version: 0.7807-2
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > I wanted to get the number of CPUs (see Sys::Info::Device::CPU man page),
> > but this fails at "use Sys::Info;":
> > 
> > $ perl -MSys::Info -e ''
> > Can't locate Sys/Info.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Sys::Info module)
> > [...]
> > 
> > There is no such issue with upstream's module version 0.78
> 
> Note that libsys-info-base-perl is the package for the CPAN
> distribution https://metacpan.org/release/Sys-Info-Base which does
> not contain Sys::Info.

Then it should be provided by a dependency, since it is needed
(see the man page I've mentioned).

> Sys::Info is in https://metacpan.org/release/Sys-Info which
> apparently is currently not available in Debian; maybe this
> should be changed … Interestingly the metadata of Sys-Info-Base don't
> refer to Sys::Info, just some examples in the documentation.

Perhaps something missing in the metadata.

-- 
Vincent Lefèvre <vincent at vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/>
100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/>
Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)