Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

2011-10-09 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: X-Debbugs-CC: j...@edlug.org.uk Sorry, I nearly lost this one in my mailfilters. If I understand right: Description: Perl module for searching paths for executable programs File::Which simulates the behavior of the standard 'which' program: it searches

Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

2011-10-09 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:46:16 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: The only shell I know of with a which builtin is zsh, but if that's missing Perl would be perfectly capable of using /usr/bin/which (provided by the Essential package debianutils). [..] So it's a safety-net to ensure the availability of

Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

2011-10-09 Thread Justin B Rye
gregor herrmann wrote: So it's a safety-net to ensure the availability of a command that on Debian is guaranteed to be available anyway? No, AIUI it's the possibility to get a which-like functionality from within perl without having to call external tools. And there are environments where

Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

2011-10-08 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Package: libfile-which-perl Version: 1.08-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainers, working on the translation of the package description to German I found an issue, at least for me ;-) The former translation was plain wrong. I believe rewording the description (1) will make it better

Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

2011-10-08 Thread Justin B Rye
Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: I believe rewording the description (1) will make it better comprehensible. Description: Perl module for searching paths for executable programs File::Which searches directories of a user's PATH (as returned by File::Spec) and looks for executable files

Bug#644701: libfile-which-perl: package description

2011-10-08 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
X-Debbugs-CC: j...@edlug.org.uk I believe rewording the description (1) will make it better comprehensible. Description: Perl module for searching paths for executable programs File::Which searches directories of a user's PATH (as returned by File::Spec) and looks for executable files