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Package: dpkg-perl, dpkg-ftp, debhelper, debconf, netbase
Version: any
Debian Perl is obsfucated, as several modules which are critical in
running a debian system are not available at CPAN. So its not possible
to deinstall the Debian Perl, to install a new Perl and to call "install
Bundle::Debian" from CPAN shell.
From the viewpoint of a Perl module author Debian Perl could be considered
completely broken in concept ;-( The best solution would of course a
Bundle::Debian, to be used to convert any Linux (redhat, suse, ...)
to a Debian system ;-)
My solution is was /opt/perl-$version and to ignore Debian's /usr/bin/perl
completely together with anything Debian package that depends on Perl.
Bye Michael
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Hello Michael,
I'm going over some very old bug reports in the perl package in Debian
and found this one.
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 08:47:21AM +0200, Michael Koehne wrote:
> Debian Perl is obsfucated, as several modules which are critical in
> running a debian system are not available at CPAN. So its not possible
> to deinstall the Debian Perl, to install a new Perl and to call "install
> Bundle::Debian" from CPAN shell.
>
> From the viewpoint of a Perl module author Debian Perl could be considered
> completely broken in concept ;-( The best solution would of course a
> Bundle::Debian, to be used to convert any Linux (redhat, suse, ...)
> to a Debian system ;-)
I'm aware that this is a very old message and that some of things in
it might not be true any more, but I think there is a misunderstanding here.
The perl interpreter package, and bundled modules, are taken from
the upstream perl package. What you are calling Debian Perl, however,
isn't really an entity that exists. Your complaint seems to be that
there is perl code which makes up the Debian system which is not on CPAN,
but there is nothing wrong with this. If you think that there are
specific reusable pieces of code in Debian which would benefit from
being on CPAN but aren't, then you could ask the authors whether they
would publish them on CPAN, but their non-availability there isn't a bug
in Debian.
I'm therefore going to close this bug.
Dominic.
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