Bug#525190: debian-policy: Please drop perl >= 5.6 from (Build-|)Depends requirements
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
> From: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (>= 5.6.0-16).
>
> This version of perl is so obsolete that dropping any reference to it
> makes sense (even oldstable has perl 5.8).
> ---
> perl-policy.sgml | 11 -----------
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
> index 1421b46..1d26df7 100644
> --- a/perl-policy.sgml
> +++ b/perl-policy.sgml
> @@ -319,10 +319,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/usr
> (nominally just tmp)</p>
> </footnote>
> </p>
> - <p>
> - A <tt>Build-Depends</tt> on <tt>perl (>= 5.6.0-16)</tt> is
> - required.
> - </p>
> </sect>
>
> <sect id="module_deps">
> @@ -342,13 +338,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/usr
> the minimum required version, or more simply the current
> version.
> </p>
> - <p>
> - In the absence of an explicit requirement,
> - architecture-independent modules must depend on a minimum
> - <package>perl</package> or <package>perl-base</package>
> - version of <tt>5.6.0-16</tt> due to the changes in
> - <tt>@INC</tt> introduced by that version.
> - </p>
> </sect1>
>
> <sect1 id="binary_modules">
Seconded. (Sorry about the long delay in review.)
This patch needs one more second to be queued for the next release of
Policy.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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