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Re: removing perl-base



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Russell Coker, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>It's been a while since the versioned Perl was introduced into potato, so I
>tried removing the fake package perl-base.
>Should I report bugs against bug, dpkg-perl, data-dumper, and tetex-base?  Or
>is it OK to depend on perl-base?
>
>**_ Req base     perl-base    Fake package assuring that one of the -base packa
>**- Opt utils    bug          Bug Reporting Tool interfacing with the Bug Track
>**- Std devel    dpkg-perl    Perl interface modules for dpkg
>**- Opt base     data-dumper  Store and retrieve perl data structures
>**- Std tex      tetex-base   basic teTeX library files

Yes, if they depend on perl-base, you should report a bug.  But probably 
not for why you think.  perl-base is an essential package and therefore
*must* be present and therefore nothing should list it in a depends
line.

Darren
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