Source: perl Version: 5.40.0-7 Tags: patch Dear Maintainer(s),
Perl pre-depends on dpkg 1.17.17, which shipped in 2014 and was part of Debian 8 (Jessie), which is long since EOL and at the time of Trixie's release will be old-old-old-old-old-stable, so it can be safely dropped now, so please consider doing so, since it's prio: essential anyway. MR opened on Salsa and patch attached. https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/interpreter/perl/-/merge_requests/7 This eases building a package-based minimal, read-only initrd with the maintainer scripts being ran at image build time, as we can install packages and then remove apt/dpkg using --root from outside without removing perl, which is needed at runtime. Thanks! --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Package: perl-base Essential: yes Priority: required Architecture: any -Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, dpkg (>= 1.17.17) +Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Depends: ${misc:Depends} Conflicts: safe-rm (<< 0.8), update-inetd (<< 4.41), @@ -189,7 +189,6 @@ Priority: optional Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: perl-base (>= ${Upstream-Version}-1), ${misc:Depends} -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.17) Recommends: perl (>= ${Upstream-Version}-1), Conflicts: perl-modules (<< 5.22.0~), Breaks: perl (<< ${Upstream-Version}~), @@ -302,7 +301,6 @@ Package: perl Priority: standard Architecture: any Multi-Arch: allowed -Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.17) Depends: perl-base (= ${binary:Version}), perl-modules-5.40 (>= ${source:Version}), libperl5.40 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Conflicts: libjson-pp-perl (<< 2.27200-2) Breaks: perl-doc (<< ${Upstream-Version}-1),
