Hello,
Following the guidelines from
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting I'm requesting advice on what package to file my bug against. The bug relates to whether Perl should be a package dependency of linux-base. Package linux-base provides /usr/bin/linux-version which can be invoked by many things that interact with initramfs / firmware generation, kernel level build stuff. If perl is not installed the invocation will fail. If this occurs when creating a chroot (eg via mmdebstrap as we are), this breaks the build. A workaround is to specify perl in the list of packages that get installed in the chroot.
While package linux-base does not require perl, it installs a script that if invoked will fail to run if perl is not installed. This problem goes unnoticed if installing a system from minbase or friends (because perl is pulled by something), but it shows up if doing a custom chroot build where a specific list of packages is used (and therefore expected to be installed in) the chroot.
Should I raise this as a bug against linux-base? It seems reasonable. If not, which package would be appropriate?
Many thanks,
-- Matt