Re: Debian packages to upgrade for the new perl(s)

[John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>]

*Joey Hess wrote:
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> > If so, it is a BIG problem. I really want my packages to be installable on 
> > slink (until the final release of potato) because most users will not want 
> > (rightly) to upgrade to unstable. dupload, for instance, is a simple Perl 
> > script, which is happy with any perl >= 5.003 and I don't want to produce a 
> > package which will not be installable on slink, without a good reason.
> 
> Why does a simple perl script need to depend on perl at all? Does it use
> things not in perl-base?

I'm not sure what constitutes 'simple'.
This is from /usr/bin/dupload :

use strict;
use 5.003; # Because of the prototypes
use Cwd;
use Getopt::Long;       Not in perl-base
use File::Basename;
use Net::FTP;           Not there
use English;            Not there

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