#651671 Please rename the package (Perl policy violation)

Package:
twiggy
Source:
twiggy
Submitter:
"Dmitry E. Oboukhov"
Date:
2011-12-11 17:39:10 UTC
Severity:
normal
#651671#5
Date:
2011-12-11 09:18:38 UTC
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To:
I spent much time to find the package. I even thought to build the
package by myself, but apt-file helped me to find the package.

Traditionally perl modules are named as lib<module-name>-perl [1]

so It would be nice to rename the module to
  libtwiggy-perl

The module aslo contains /usr/bin/twiggy. It could be left
in module 'twiggy'.

So It would be nice to have two packages:

twiggy:
    depends -> libtwiggy-perl
    contains ->
        /usr/bin/twiggy
        /usr/share/man/man1/twiggy.1p.gz
        /usr/share/doc/twiggy/copyright
        /usr/share/doc/twiggy/changelog.gz
        /usr/share/doc/twiggy/changelog.Debian.gz

libtwiggy-perl:
    contains ->
        /usr/share/perl5/Twiggy.pm
        /usr/share/perl5/AnyEvent
        /usr/share/perl5/AnyEvent/Server
        /usr/share/perl5/AnyEvent/Server/PSGI.pm
        /usr/share/perl5/Plack
        /usr/share/perl5/Plack/Handler
        /usr/share/perl5/Plack/Handler/Twiggy.pm
        /usr/share/perl5/Twiggy
        /usr/share/perl5/Twiggy/Server.pm
        /usr/share/perl5/Twiggy/Server
        /usr/share/perl5/Twiggy/Server/SS.pm
        /usr/share/man
        /usr/share/man/man3
        /usr/share/man/man3/Twiggy.3pm.gz
        /usr/share/man/man3/Plack::Handler::Twiggy.3pm.gz
        /usr/share/doc/libtwiggy-perl/copyright
        /usr/share/doc/libtwiggy-perl/changelog.gz
        /usr/share/doc/libtwiggy-perl/changelog.Debian.gz

1. http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names
#651671#10
Date:
2011-12-11 12:37:51 UTC
From:
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IIRC, at the time this was uploaded for the first time, it was decided to
rename the package this way because it was mainly inteneded to be used as
standalone application (as per group's policy [0]). Same goes for the
starman package.

This [1] is what I found with a quick search, but I couldn't find the
specific discussion about twiggy and starman use.

I don't think splitting the package this way makes much sense given that the
twiggy script is quite minimal. In the case this is going to be renamed,
the package libtwiggy-perl should just "Provides: twiggy".

Cheers

[0] http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html#package_naming_policy
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2011/02/msg00099.html
#651671#15
Date:
2011-12-11 13:25:08 UTC
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Ack, that matches my memory (and the group's) policy.

The discussion actually came up several times during the last years,
pointing out that user who look for the well-known application <app>
will rather find the <app> package than the lib<app>-perl package.

2x ack.


Cheers,
gregor
#651671#20
Date:
2011-12-11 17:38:40 UTC
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Now the package is well alternative to libanyevent-httpd. So there
will appear many projects dependig on libtwiggy-perl.
:)

I think that package size means little. If somebody needs twiggy
script he will seek 'twiggy' package. If he needs Twiggy module he will
seek 'libtwiggy-perl' package. So I think it is worth to split package
anymore.

Now Debian has already have one package that depends on twiggy.
And it uses it as library (external module). So the project (probably)
needn't twiggy script :)