Re: Bug#4238: mirror requires perl

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Bug#4238: mirror requires perl"):
...
> 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?

I propose the following policy, which is roughly what we have at the
moment:

A basic version of Perl is shipped with the base system.  This should
be a separate package, say `perlbase'.  If you only need this you
don't need a dependency.

If you need extra modules, &c, you must declare a dependency on
`perl'.

Ian.