Re: Bug#421549: I: libbio-primerdesigner-perl source: build-depends-without-arch-dep libmodule-build-perl
gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> writes:
> Hm, the package name is both in the subject and in the lintian output
> above: libbio-primerdesigner-perl :)
>
> (The package is in the pkg-perl svn repo.)
Oh, sorry, I clearly didn't read closely enough.
> I first thought that this is related to dh7's short debian/rules but
> Charles uses the "old style" one with an explicit
> [ ! -f Build ] || $(PERL) Build --allow_mb_mismatch 1 distclean
> in debian/rules clean target.
>
> FWIW: I get the same lintian informational message after building the
> package.
Now that I go and look at the code, I remember what's going on here. We
dropped the allowance and requirement for libmodule-build-perl in 2.1.0.
+ [RA] Stop checking for a libmodule-build-perl build dependency since
Module::Build now comes with Perl. Thanks, Raphael Hertzog.
(Closes: #506697)
Since it comes with Perl, there's little point in having the dependency,
and Lintian was giving spurious tags asking people to add it.
I suppose that we could add it back in as an allowable but not required
dependency if there's some reason not to just drop the dependency
entirely.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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