On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:46:12 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > What if we do this: stop providing perlapi frm perl-base and instead have > perl provide perlapi? Otherwise, keep the dependencies and Multi-Arch > designations the same. This means that anything that needs the Perl API > will have to pull in the full standard perl package, but I think that's > reasonable. At least libuuid-perl currently has: Depends: perl-base (>= 5.14.2-3), perlapi-5.14.2, ... (and is a reverse-depends of linux-base and doc-base and causes all kinds of troubles on each dist-upgrade). Not sure if this is relevant, it just came to my mind :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, John Mc Laughlin: Espiritu
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