Bug#525190: debian-policy: Please drop perl >= 5.6 from (Build-|)Depends requirements

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:28:23PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 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/&lt;tmp&gt;/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/&lt;tmp&gt;/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 ?

perl is build essential.  dpkg-dev depends on it.


Kurt