On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 06:56:37 +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > BTW: Why does Hurd contain such crappy dependencies such as perl.
This comment seems unnecessarily abrasive and out of place… > Is this part of upstream or Debian specific? The Debian package does not > have it: > apt-cache showsrc hurd | grep Build-Depends | grep -i perl > <empty> That's because that would be wrong on two accounts: ,--- $ apt-cache show perl-base|grep Essential Essential: yes $ apt-cache show perl|grep Essential Build-Essential: yes `--- > Is there more perl code in upstream Hurd? If not, how about rewrite this code > snippet in C and "remove a should be added" a language dependency! That would be pointless, as per above. Not to mention that the dpkg-dev tools are all in perl, same as debhelper, and there's no intention to rewrite them. Regards, Guillem
