Dear gregor, all, On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 11:17 AM, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:04:25 +0000, Nuno Carvalho wrote: > >> * Package name : libextutils-hascompiler-perl >> Version : 0.016 >> Upstream Author : Leon Timmermans <faw...@gmail.com> >> * URL : https://github.com/Leont/extutils-hascompiler >> * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ >> Programming Lang: Perl >> Description : check for the presence of a compiler >> >> This module tries to check if the current system is capable of compiling, >> linking and loading an XS module. > > I suspect this is a new build dependency of some existing package but > I'm wondering if we really need it -- since we know that we have a > working compiler when building packages.
Thank you for your comments, indeed this is a new build dependency. I'm just wondering if the module itself may be useful in other situations. > OTOH packaging it might be less work than patching reverse > dependencies. But I thought I'd bring the question up just in case. Actually patching it seems rather straightforward, I guess the only question that remains is the usefulness of the module on it's own. > Cheers, > gregor Thank you, Nuno > -- > .''`. Homepage https://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 > : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - https://www.debian.org/ > `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe > `- BOFH excuse #350: paradigm shift...without a clutch >