Hi.


I know exiftool is both, Perl modules and a commandline tool.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to either split out the commanline tool to
a spearate package (e.g. "exiftool") or provide some dummy-package
(also e.g. "exiftool) that depends on libimage-exiftool-perl
but make this really nice tool more easily findable.


Cheers,
Chris.

tag 617858 + pending
thanks

Some bugs in the libimage-exiftool-perl package are closed in
revision de47f5a224321b33d384f61e8487efe9498871ec in branch 'master'
by gregor herrmann

The full diff can be seen at
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libimage-exiftool-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=de47f5a

Commit message:

    debian/control: add Provides: exiftool

    Closes: #617858

tag 617858 + pending
thanks

Some bugs in the libimage-exiftool-perl package are closed in
revision de47f5a224321b33d384f61e8487efe9498871ec in branch 'master'
by gregor herrmann

The full diff can be seen at
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libimage-exiftool-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=de47f5a

Commit message:

    debian/control: add Provides: exiftool

    Closes: #617858

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libimage-exiftool-perl, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 617858@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> (supplier of updated libimage-exiftool-perl package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:32:41 +0100
Source: libimage-exiftool-perl
Binary: libimage-exiftool-perl
Architecture: source all
Version: 9.04-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Description:
 libimage-exiftool-perl - library and program to read and write meta information in multime
Closes: 617858 656858
Changes:
 libimage-exiftool-perl (9.04-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * Take over for the Debian Perl Group with maintainer's approval
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   * debian/control: Added: Vcs-Git field (source stanza); Vcs-Browser
     field (source stanza). Changed: Maintainer set to Debian Perl Group
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 .
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   * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 8.
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     - remove Recommends that is satified in perl core
     - lowercase short description
     - add Provides: exiftool (Closes: #617858)
     - add /me to Uploaders
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.4 (no changes).
 .
   * Imported Upstream version 9.04. (Closes: #656858)
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   * Add Recommends on libarchive-zip-perl.
   * Add a patch to fix some minor spelling errors in the documentation.
   * debian/copyright: add additional copyright holders.
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reopen 617858
stop


Hi.

Adding a virtual package wasn't what I've meant:

I rather meant a binary package exiftool, that contains the current
package's:
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/exiftool
/usr/share/man/man1
/usr/share/man/man1/exiftool.1p.gz


and depends on the perl package.



Cheers,
Chris.

(also e.g. "exiftool)' ... ah, "dummy package" was the keyword, not
Provides, ok.

Anyway:
What I've done now confirms to our group policy (
http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html#package_naming_policy
) and common practice across other similar packages.

Yup, that's the separate package option. I'm not in favour of this
but if someone else from the pkg-perl team wants to go this way I
won't stop them.


Cheers,
gregor