On 2017-04-20 09:35:27 [+0000], Jonathon Delgado wrote: > Even if something in this script requires full perl, many ca-certificate > users won't run it after the initial install (of ca-certificates), and apt > won't let me uninstall just perl because of the hard dependency.
The openssl package ships perl scripts. Those scripts require perl which means that this package depends on perl and this dependency is automatically added by debhelper as per policy. Why the need for the `openssl' but no `perl' package? I don't have a single a box around without perl installed. Sebastian
