perl-Net-DNS-Nameserver subpackage?

[Robin Norwood]

Hi,

I got an email from one of the maintainers of Net::DNS (Dick Franks)
about one of my recent changelog entries.  I had (incorrectly) removed
perl(Net::IP) from the BuildRequires because I read in the upstream
changelog that it was no longer required.  I had to revert that change
because it *was* still required by Net::DNS::Nameserver.  Dick suggested
that I could split Net::DNS::Nameserver out into a subpackage.
Net::DNS::Nameserver is what you expect it is - a simple DNS server.

I don't know if it's worth it, or if it's wise this late in the release
cycle for F8.  What do y'all think?

Here's the patch:

perl(Net::IP) is still a BuildRequire, but not a requirement for the
base package any longer.  It makes sense to split out 'Server' bits, but
OTOH, it's just one .pm file and a small dep.

-RN

[Paul Howarth]

Robin Norwood wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got an email from one of the maintainers of Net::DNS (Dick Franks)
> about one of my recent changelog entries.  I had (incorrectly) removed
> perl(Net::IP) from the BuildRequires because I read in the upstream
> changelog that it was no longer required.  I had to revert that change
> because it *was* still required by Net::DNS::Nameserver.  Dick suggested
> that I could split Net::DNS::Nameserver out into a subpackage.
> Net::DNS::Nameserver is what you expect it is - a simple DNS server.
>
> I don't know if it's worth it, or if it's wise this late in the release
> cycle for F8.  What do y'all think?
>
> Here's the patch:
>
> perl(Net::IP) is still a BuildRequire, but not a requirement for the
> base package any longer.  It makes sense to split out 'Server' bits, but
> OTOH, it's just one .pm file and a small dep.

I'd keep everything in one package, for two reasons:

1. Net::IP is only a small module that doesn't pull in any additional 
dependencies, so there's not a big saving in splitting things up to 
avoid a dependency on it (especially when considering the additional 
metadata needed for a subpackage in the repo).

2. People installing perl-Net-DNS will probably be expecting to find the 
entire module distribution in that package, and not have to go looking 
for a subpackage for Net::DNS::Nameserver. I don;t think there's much 
precedent for splits like this (apart from the main perl package itself 
of course).

Paul.