On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:47:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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. That might be, but that doesn't mean alot of packages don't depend on the current behaviour. Kurt