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

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jun 19 2009, 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.)
>
> This patch needs one more second to be queued for the next release of
> Policy.

        Seconded.

        manoj
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