I thought I'd raise this here to get some discussion:
What do you all think about suggesting that packages which only need
perl-base to function depending only on perl-base, not perl?
I've recently run into a situtation where this would be nice because
I'm making a relatively minimal root image, for which I've wanted to
include libparams-validate-perl. Unfortunatly, libparams-validate-perl
depends on perl even though it can work with perl-base, which more
than doubles the size of the image.
If this seems reasonable, I'd suggest expanding:
Binary modules must specify a dependency on either perl or
perl-base with a minimum version of the perl package used to build
the module, and must additionally depend on the expansion of
perlapi-$Config{version} using the Config module.
to indicate that depending on perl-base when it is the only dependency
necessary is desirable.
Don Armstrong
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