[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/5] utils/scancpan: warn when a module is a perl core module

[Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>]

Thomas, Fran?ois, All,

On 2020-01-03 16:56 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire spake thusly:
> El dom., 22 dic. 2019 a las 17:33, Yann E. MORIN
> (<yann.morin.1998@free.fr>) escribi?:
> > On 2019-12-22 17:21 +0100, Francois Perrad spake thusly:
> > > Signed-off-by: Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>
> >
> > This change does need to be explained in the commit log:
> >
> >   - Why is it bad that we have a pacakge that is a core module?
> >   - Does it cause any issue? If so, which one?
> >
> > Also, when you do removes package, the least is to add in Cc the people
> > that initially added the package, so they have a chance to chime in and
> > explain why they wanted to add it in the first place, and so they can
> > confirm that the core module does indeed work for them.
> >
> > I'll mark the whole series as Changes Requested in Patchowrk. Please
> > respin with explanations, and Cc original packagers.
> 
> When submitting the package perl-math-bigint I was not aware that it
> was a core package.
> After Fran?ois mentioned it, we checked internally if indeed things
> work fine without the Buildroot package, and it is the case.
> So, there is no need for package/perl-math-bigint.
> 
> There is no actual harm by also having a Buildroot package, except for:
> - unneeded stuff in Buildroot
> - potential to eclipse a newer version of the package when
> package/perl evolves but package/perl-math-bigint does not.
> 
> So from my point of view I would indeed remove the package again.
> I was actually going to send a revert but then I saw this series.

Thanks for the feedback. I had seen the previous forth-n-back about
math-bigint too, so was pretty aware of the situation. Nonetheless, it
should have been explained in the commit log.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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