On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:49:19 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > In fact, based on Don's concerns and the discussion on debian-devel [1] > it looks like we're going to back away from the perl+perl-modules merge. Ok. > However, I think there is a point in discouraging direct dependencies > on perl-modules. [..] > Therefore I think that the perl/perl-modules split should be considered > an internal implementation detail of the perl source package, and other > packages should only depend on perl (or some specified versions of > perl-base, in exceptional circumstances.) Makes sense to me. > The first steps to this would be just a change to the perl-modules > long description and a lintian warning triggering on the 150 or so > packages currently (build-)depending on perl-modules. The ones maintained by the perl group are already changed (at least in svn), and dh-make-perl also just uses "perl" already. > Changing 150 packages won't happen overnight but there's no particular > hurry with it and I think the remaining dependencies could be filed > at some point as minor bugs. Ack. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG Key IDs: 0x00F3CFE4, 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: U2: Where The Streets Have No Name
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