Package: perl
Version: 5.10.0-9
Severity: wishlist
Locale::Gettext is used by many scripts/modules to provide localized
strings to the user. Those scripts are used in package configuration
scripts (postinst, preinst, postrm, prerm, config) and they should
always work when possible... even when perl is being upgraded to
a new perl with an incompatible XS ABI.
To offer such a guaranty, the nicest solution is to provide the module in
the same package than the perl binary itself. Hence it should become part
of perl-base in Debian and should be part of core modules at the upstream
level.
Please discuss this on p5p with upstream and if they agree to do it for
the next upstream release, please consider doing it right now as a
temporary fork so that we can see if it helps with the upgrade problems
described in
http://bugs.debian.org/479220