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Re: Bug#42117: shtool should NOT depend on perl !



On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 09:57:59AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Package: shtool
> Version: 1.4.4-1
> Severity: important
> 
> I thought everybody would be aware of it with the difficult perl upgrade.
> :) Anyway, your package depends on perl, it shouldn't ! You should depend
> on perl5. Or if you want your package to work on slink too then use :
> "perl | perl5".
> 
> Perl is just a fake package in potato, you shouldn't depend on it.
> Each package that depends on perl will prevent the user to install
> perl-5.005 (which is the official perl in Debian now), that's why the
> severity important. Please correct this rapidly.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Hertzog Raphaël >> 0C4CABF1 >> http://prope.insa-lyon.fr/~rhertzog/

Thanks for the pointer. This bug is now fixed. shtool now depends on
"perl | perl5". I've uploaded the fixed package to master just now. 

Gopal

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