Package: libio-aio-perl Version: bin/treescan not installed Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, the IO::AIO package comes with a utility called "treescan" which is installed when the package is installed by normal means. Apparently, the debian package moves it into the documetation folder as an example. While it might serve as an example (just like any application of any library might serve as an example) it's explicitgly not packages as an example - example files normally go into eg/, executable porgrams go into bin/ and are installed normally, so the debian package shouldn't change it into an example and not install it properly. While I am the author of IO::AIO and naturally have a totally inflated notion of how important treescan is, it is nevertheless a useful tool (at the very least, for me, and it cost me a while to understand why the treescan tool is missing on some customer server evem though the libio-aio-perl package is installed and there is no e.g. libio-aio-perl-bin or so either), and debian should have a good reason of patching the upstream package to move it into example-only status :) To give an example of how it can be useful, this is a find on a standard debian /usr with cold cache on an ssd with both treescan and find: time treescan /usr|grep -i xyzzy\$ >/dev/null real 0m9.331s time find /usr -iname "*.xyzzy" >/dev/null real 0m13.723s The differences between find and treescan on rotational media with lots of files are much more spectacular and cans be the difference between an hour and 6 minutes. So, it's useful. So go and please pleas epackage it or don't call your package libio-aio-perl when it doesn't actually package that perl module :) I rest my case, thanks for your attention and thanks for your work on Debian GNU/Linux! -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.13.12-041312-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libio-aio-perl depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 ii libcommon-sense-perl 3.74-2 ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 ii perl-base [perlapi-5.24.1] 5.24.1-3+deb9u2 pn perlapi-5.26.0 <none> libio-aio-perl recommends no packages. libio-aio-perl suggests no packages.
