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

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

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.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>