Bug#3230: why the hell does perl depend on tcsh???

To: Carlos Carvalho <carlos@riglos.fisica.ufpr.br>, debian-bugs@pixar.com
Subject: Bug#3230: why the hell does perl depend on tcsh???
From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 96 08:34 EDT
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  Carlos>  Package: perl
  Carlos>  Version: 5.002-10
  Carlos>
  Carlos> Version -7 didn't depend on tcsh. Why does this version depend? It
  Carlos> shouldn't, anyway.

Perl needs tcsh for globbing. There were a couple of bug reports to that
extend.

--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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