Hi Marcelo!
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 22:55:38 -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
can't find the reference anymore.
The main reasons for this are to not be subject to
[ I subscribed to the list, thanks for the Cc:'s ]
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 12:20:52PM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
The two cases I can think of are splitting an archive that
splits to a single piece, splitting to multiple pieces and
some failure cases.
Right now I do something like:
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 09:23:54PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
The more recent reference is in http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap
Thanks!
Marcelo
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Hi,
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
can't find the reference anymore.
I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1].
Luckily, even if that doesn’t pan out,
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Some test cases (or methods for producing them) would make me very
happy. dpkg doesn’t have enough automated tests of basic functionality.
Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2].
Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which
Russ Allbery wrote:
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2].
Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which means that people
are already familiar with the Perl test harness, you may want to consider
using my C TAP Harness
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 01:19:33AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1].
Ah, yes, that was it, thanks! Removing Perl from the essential
set. While going to bed, I actually figured that was the reason
why I wasn't finding perl in the
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi,
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
can't find the reference anymore.
I could only find approx one reference for
Hi,
somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
can't find the reference anymore. Oddly enough I don't see a
dependency of dpkg on perl either:
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.6.1
Replaces: manpages-de (= 0.4-3),
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