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



On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:29:27PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> perl is build essential.  dpkg-dev depends on it.

dpkg-dev's dependency on perl is an implementation detail, not a guaranteed
build-essential interface.
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