Package: mmdebstrap
Version: 0.5.1-2
Severity: minor

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mmdebstrap depends on perl-doc, and is among a very few
packages doing that.  I suspect it is unneded.

mmdebstrap added a dependency on perl-doc in December 2018
(git commit ffc7faa, seemingly not mentioned in changelog).

Git commit message hints at the reason being "for pod2usage"
but I fail to understand what is needed there, as the only thing I can
find related to pod2usage in perl-doc is its html documentation,
otherwise it is provided in package perl:

jonas@auryn:~$ apt-file search pod2usage
perl: /usr/bin/pod2usage
perl: /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1.gz
perl-doc-html: /usr/share/doc/perl-doc-html/pod2usage.html


Please consider dropping that dependency.

 - Jonas

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