Bug#525190: debian-policy: Please drop perl >= 5.6 from (Build-|)Depends requirements
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:03:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
>
> > From: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
> > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (>= 5.6.0-16).
> >
> > This version of perl is so obsolete that dropping any reference to it
> > makes sense (even oldstable has perl 5.8).
> > ---
> > perl-policy.sgml | 11 -----------
> > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
> > index 1421b46..1d26df7 100644
> > --- a/perl-policy.sgml
> > +++ b/perl-policy.sgml
> > @@ -319,10 +319,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/usr
> > (nominally just tmp)</p>
> > </footnote>
> > </p>
> > - <p>
> > - A <tt>Build-Depends</tt> on <tt>perl (>= 5.6.0-16)</tt> is
> > - required.
> > - </p>
> > </sect>
> >
> > <sect id="module_deps">
> > @@ -342,13 +338,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/usr
> > the minimum required version, or more simply the current
> > version.
> > </p>
> > - <p>
> > - In the absence of an explicit requirement,
> > - architecture-independent modules must depend on a minimum
> > - <package>perl</package> or <package>perl-base</package>
> > - version of <tt>5.6.0-16</tt> due to the changes in
> > - <tt>@INC</tt> introduced by that version.
> > - </p>
> > </sect1>
> >
> > <sect1 id="binary_modules">
>
> Seconded. (Sorry about the long delay in review.)
I agree that the requirement for >= 5.6.0-16 should be removed but
probably the requirement for 'Build-Depends: perl' should be kept ?
Or maybe I am missing the big picture ?
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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