[xen-tools-dev] Potential new dependency for xen-tools: Run::Parts

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 05:36:39PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> For two other projects I wrote a Perl module called Run::Parts
> (https://metacpan.org/release/Run-Parts) and I noticed that the
> functionality it offers is also present in xen-tools (handling hooks
> and roles directories) in its own implementation and ogle with
> replacing xen-tools' own implementation with the module one.
> 
> librun-parts-perl is in Debian Unstable since very recently so adding
> it as dependency wouldn't hurt Debian. (Well, backports of xen-tools
> would need that package then, too, but that's doable without much
> effort.)

Adding this dependency would also pull in File::Slurp (which is very
common and hence very likely packaged) as well the less common modules
Taint::Util and Exporter::Easy. The later is for example neither
available on Debian Squeeze (currently labeled "oldstable") nor Ubuntu
Lucid (the oldest still supported Ubuntu release). It's though
available on the lastest Debian Stable release as well as on the
latest Ubuntu LTS release.

(I though could drop the dependency on Exporter::Easy quite easily if
that's of help.)

		Kind regards, Axel
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