Plus for Chris's view on this. As a sys admin that maintains a Koha for an org I want to be able to "aptitude update/upgrade" without problems and do a future dist-upgrade with few problems. Perl is pretty stable (vastly stable compared to npn packages) but there are occasionally patches that come through. It's preferable for a Debian Perl package maintainer to manage that I think. Mike --- Mike Lake On 2020-06-10 17:49, Chris Cormack wrote:
Hi all
Just want to put on record my thoughts that replacing the package architecture with carton or cpan seems like a bad idea. The main benefit of using modules packaged and tested by debian developers is that is a whole lot of work we don't have to do. It comes under the debian perl (who have massive combined knowledge) and the debian security team. If we are going to move away from that someone is going to be needing to follow all the security advisories for all the perl modules we use (must be a hundred or so) and deal with that. It also makes OS udgrades harder.
I'm not opposed to having them as an option but replacing the packages with them seems like a step into the utter chaos that is things like npm and the node world.
Chris