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

[Axel Beckert]

Hi Dario,

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:59:28PM +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On mar, 2013-07-09 at 22:21 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Regarding Fedora, File-Slurp is there, the others are not. There is a
> Taint-Runtime, but I'm not sure it is the same thing and/or privdes what
> would be needed.

Interestingly Taint::Runtime also provides the untaint function I use
and it seems to do more or less the same thing. But then again,
Taint::Utils seems more modern (last release 2010 compared to 2007)
and more targeted towards such usage. In Taint::Runtime, untaint looks
more like a nice-to-have part which is suitable only for some cases.
And Taint::Runtime is not available in Debian or Ubuntu.

> I'm replying with more details to the other e-mail on this thread, but
> none of this should be an issue. The only one is my very low experience
> at packaging perl modules (and with perl in general), but that is
> nothing that we could deal with! :-P

Hrm, still sounds like "would be easier without that dependencies"...
Will take that into account.

Thanks for the reply.

		Kind regards, Axel
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