So pitti poked me on this new dep on IRC; I initially thought we'd patch
logcheck to use sendmail again, but looking again at whether we could
simply promote mime-construct, it appears so.
mime-construct itself:
- maintenance in Debian is fine, almost no bug (only a but with attachment
which we don't care about for logcheck); not quite sure why it's native
- build-depends and depends on libmime-base64-perl, actually provided by perl,
seems like a bug
- build-depends and depends on libmime-types-perl (see below)
- build-depends and depends on libproc-waitstat-perl (see below)
- misses dep on ${misc:Depends}, uses old Standards-Version and DH_COMPAT 3
- doesn't have a testsuite
- is basically a monolithic script
Given the triviality of this single-script package, I think we can cope
with it, but I'll try sending packaging updates to the Debian BTS.
libmime-types-perl:
- build-depends on libtest-pod-perl which is already in main
- great maintenance by Debian Perl team
- new upstream version available
- great, clean, and modern packaging
- testsuite enabled during build
- overall relatively small Perl lib
libproc-waitstat-perl:
- build-depends and depends on libipc-signal-perl (see below)
- kind of the same story as mime-construct, same Debian maintainer but it's not
native and it has a testsuite, albeit it's not enabled during build
- it's basically a monolithic module
libipc-signal-perl: exactly the same story as libproc-waitstat-perl
So my personal opinion is that we could live with these and I would be
ok with promoting these with main, despite the out of date packaging for
three of the packages which are monolitic script packaged by a Debian
developer outside of the Perl group.
Perhaps other people in the MIR team have differing opinions on that? I
will ping the server team to ask whether it's an issue to add these
small deps to the ISO as a result of the new deps.
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