On 08/05/21 13:26 +0200, Cyril Brulebois said ... > On 21/05/2008, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote: > > perl-base is build-essential but perl is not. > > I beg to differ. > > $ apt-cache show perl | grep ^Build-Essential > Build-Essential: yes You are right, I stand corrected. I followed policy (4.2 Package relationships) which pointed me to /usr/share/build-essential/list which indicated that it includes /usr/share/build-essential/essential-packages-list and neither of the lists had perl, only perl-base was in essential-packages-list. That misled me because make was listed explicitly and I thought all packages that dpkg-dev depends on would also be listed explicitly. Turns out that perl, cpio etc. that dpkg-dev depends on are not listed, but they are marked Build-Essential: yes. Thanks for pointing out. I will go and fix my packages :) Cheers, Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://appaji.net/
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