On Fri, 09 Dec 2022 10:20:23 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: (Sorry for the late reply.)
> > I’m afraid to say that it mostly is not actionable from the > > Debian packaging side. What you propose, in my understanding, > > are massive changes to the code, and that’s not what we are > > going to do on our own in Debian, but something which needs > > to be discussed with upstream and needs to happen there. > Not all of the changes I propose are what I’d call ‘massive.’ Right, "massive" was not the best wording. > > I can forward your ideas upstream > > I’d appreciate that. > > > but it might be easier if you do it yourself as this will > > potentially require discussion: > > https://github.com/bestpractical/http-server-simple > > I have no Github account (and I’d rather keep it that way.) Alright. > I have a CPAN account, though, so I can report the issues > to the CPAN RT instance [1], if the upstream monitor that. > > [1] http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTTP-Server-Simple TBH, I don't know if upstream monitors CPAN RT or Github or both or neither :) I propose that you try to report your proposals at CPAN RT, and if this doesn't trigger a reaction I can forward the bug report to Github later. > > That’s something relevant for packaging; but I’m not so sure about > > your conclusion. After looking around a bit I think I can say > > that lib/HTTP/Server/Simple/CGI.pm needs CGI.pm; libcgi-pm-perl > > needs to be in Build-Depends-Indep, otherwise the tests fails > > (which was not your point); moving libcgi-pm-perl from Depends to > > Recommends does not break autopkgtests so it would be ok at first > > sight, the question is if we want to ensure an always working > > HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI. In the end I guess a Recommends would > > be arguable but it’s not that clear-cut IMO … > > IME it rarely is. > > The caveat here is that all the packages that depend on > libhttp-server-simple-perl /and/ use HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI > would need to be updated to depend on libcgi-pm-perl as well. Right, and here we are getting into the question of costs vs. benefits. The benefits of moving libcgi-pm-perl from Depends to Recommends are saving a bit of diskspace and installed packages; the costs are finding where HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI is used and adding additional dependencies there. <https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=HTTP%3A%3AServer%3A%3ASimple%3A%3ACGI&literal=1> looks like this might be a non-trivial amount of work. For me personally the costs outweigh the benefits, but others might come to different conclusions. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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