Bug#525190: debian-policy: Please drop perl >= 5.6 from (Build-|)Depends requirements
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> 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 ?
There's earlier text in the same section outside the context range that
requires a dependency on perl if the module uses any of the modules
provided by the perl packages.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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