Bug#4238: mirror requires perl

[Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca]

  Susan> Package: mirror 
  Susan> Version: 2.8-6
  Susan> 
  Susan> The control file for mirror should be changed to show that it
  Susan> requires the installation of the full Perl package, not just the
  Susan> small package included in the base system (what's missing is a
  Susan> timezone.pl file).
  Susan> 
  Susan> Alternatively, the perl package in the base system needs to have the
  Susan> timezone.pl file added to it.

Thanks for pointing this out.  But what shall I do?

On one hand, 16 packages directly depend on perl.[1] I could add a Depends.

On the other hand, we seem to have (had ?) a policy of relying on (at least a
rudimentary) perl in the base system --- but I cannot find anything on that
in the programmers and policy manuals of dpkg-1.3.8. So should timezone.pl
move into base? Comments? Ian, Bruce?


[1] edd@miles:~> zgrep "^depends.*perl" /mirror/debian/rex/binary-i386/Packages.gz | wc -l
     16     


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