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Q: Using a dependency on perl-base only



Wearing the pptp-linux maintainer's hat:

The pptp-linux package has a full Perl dependency (expanded from the
${perl:Depends} substvar) but it actually just ships a small Perl script
pptpsetup[1] that has a very small dependency list. So small it's
already satisfied by perl-base.

Now I got a request to change the install dependencies accordingly,
i.e. replace "${perl:Depends}" with "perl-base".

Besides some extra handwork (like probably silencing lintian), is there
any reason to not do this?

    Christoph

[1] https://sources.debian.net/src/pptp-linux/1.9.0%2Bds-1/pptpsetup/

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