help needed on the gwyddion review

[Patrice Dumas]

Hello,

There is a review for gwyddion submitted by David Necas, it is his
first package:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=187294

I am doing a review, but it is stalled, and I am not completly 
sure on what is right. We are disagreeing on the packaging of some 
modules (python, perl and ruby). These modules are there to handle 
a file format used by some kind of gwyddion plugins. These kind of 
plugins are more or less deprecated, but some examples are packaged in 
the gwyddion-plugin-examples subpackage.

Currently David put the modules in the libs subpackage (together with the 
gwyddion libs), below %{_libdir}/%{name}, without having the subpackage 
requires the interpreters (python, perl and ruby). His reasoning is 
that they are available, and a user has to have the interpreter available 
anyway, so no need to Requires them. Nothing shows that the modules are in 
this subpackage, and users have to set set some path explicitely, but 
for him having those bits a bit hard to use it is not an issue since it 
is associated with a deprecated interface.

I disagree, and tend to think that these modules should be packaged as 
far as possible like usual modules, each in a subpackage with a dependency
on the interpreter.

I don't have a clear opinion on this, could you have one?

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Pat