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

[Dario Faggioli]

On mar, 2013-07-09 at 17:36 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> because it may cause headaches for people packaging xen-tools (Cc'ing
> Dario for that explicitly) or using git checkouts, I'd be happy about
> comments with regards to the following idea:
> 
Wow, thanks for that! :-)

> 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.
> 
Well, as it could have been expected, I don't find it in Fedora.

> 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.)
> 
> I though fear that it may hit other distribution as I don't expect
> Run::Parts to be packaged already anywhere else.
> 
Indeed.

> Dario: Do you know if there's such thing like the Debian Perl Team
> (which maintains > 2500 Perl Modules in Debian and can do a lot of
> common package maintenance on all packages with more or less one
> commit) or would you have to find someone to maintain that dependency
> in Fedora, too?
> 
There is something like that in Fedora, and they at least can help
(provide information, etc.). However, if that is needed, I think that at
some point it will have to be me that will package and submit it, which
is not a big deal, I just need a bit of time to figure out how to
properly package a perl module... All but impossible, and I'm keen on at
least trying that! :-P

Of what version of xen-tools are we talking about?

Thanks again and Regards,
Dario

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