[Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1

[Ken Brown]

On 10/2/2017 4:39 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> On 9/30/2017 4:52 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>>> Am 29.09.2017 um 20:06 schrieb Yaakov Selkowitz:
>>>> texinfo
>>>
>>> Installs under /usr/share/texinfo and seems to use captive Perl
>>> distributions, maybe we should change that (i.e. move
>>> perl-libintl-perl, perl-Text-Unidecode etc. to their own CPAN
>>> derived package).
>>
>> More importantly, it installs compiled XS modules into /usr/lib/texinfo.
> 
> I need to have a look on what the main GNU/Linux distributions are doing
> with this.

It's the same on Debian:

   https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/texinfo/filelist

I haven't checked any other.

> WOuld it be possible to cleanly excise those as dependent
> packages?

I could certainly do that, but I wouldn't want to unless there's a 
GNU/Linux model to follow.  I don't think Cygwin should use special 
packaging that no one else uses.

Ken