Add a warning to avoid adding unnecessary stuff in Dpkg.pm

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1c2dd7091f25bda4020d4f0f5ed473be8d4a66ec..e8589af6787dd455f72789b18e88d1ea79295d54 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-12-28  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+       * scripts/Dpkg.pm: Add a warning to avoid adding unnecessary stuff
+       in that module.
+
 2007-12-27  Guillem Jover  <guillem@debian.org>
 
        * scripts/Dpkg.pm (%EXPORT_TAGS, @EXPORT_OK): Remove.

diff --git a/scripts/Dpkg.pm b/scripts/Dpkg.pm
index 7886018dc0e4d62415163452cc101a915cb139f2..4a5dcbbf3d31c6ece5a0c839a2435ef2120eff75 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/Dpkg.pm
+++ b/scripts/Dpkg.pm
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@ package Dpkg;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 
+# This module is the only one provided by dpkg and not dpkg-dev
+#
+# Don't add things here if you don't need them in dpkg itself.
+# If you do, and also use the new stuff in dpkg-dev, you'll have to bump
+# the dependency of dpkg-dev on dpkg.
+
 use base qw(Exporter);
 our @EXPORT = qw($version $progname $admindir $dpkglibdir $pkgdatadir);