Re: [dpkg] 01/04: debian: Do not insert a perl:Depends for libdpkg-perl
On 2016-12-18 11:40 +0000, Guillem Jover wrote:
> commit f27865fad257cfc29511b01ba810466b40c994a1
> Author: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
> Date: Fri Dec 16 22:39:25 2016 +0100
>
> debian: Do not insert a perl:Depends for libdpkg-perl
>
> Because tying the modules to a specific interpreter is wrong.
> ---
> debian/changelog | 5 +++++
> debian/control | 1 -
> debian/rules | 3 ++-
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> index 5f44574..e64a85b 100644
> --- a/debian/changelog
> +++ b/debian/changelog
> @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
> dpkg (1.18.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
>
> + [ Guillem Jover ]
> + * Packaging:
> + - Do not let dh_perl insert a dependency for libdpkg-perl, because tying
> + the modules to a specific interpreter is wrong.
But now reverse dependencies of libdpkg-perl will have to add the perl
dependency themselves, even if they only use modules included in
perl-base. This also seems wrong to me.
Pretty much all of the lib*-perl packages seem to depend on perl, and I
think you should talk to the Debian Perl maintainers if you want to
change that.
Cheers,
Sven
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