On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 11:38:35PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: >lintian has no complains, but linda still insists on perl-dependency, >which I've refused to put, since perl is essential and versioned perl >dependency is not required (package requires 5.005 and even oldstable >has 5.6). There actually is a bug against linda for this (318028) which >is closed with reasoning that is not clear to me. [...]
The 'perl' package is not essential. A minimal subset of Perl including the binary /usr/bin/perl is in the essential package 'perl-base' and is intended to allow maintainer scripts and the installer to use some Perl. linda is correct. Policy states that for architecture independant modules like 'librpc-xml-perl', a dependency on either 'perl' or 'perl-base >= 5.6.0-16' is required. Newer versions of either should be specified if the module depends on specific versions of core modules. The reason for the version on the 'perl-base' dependency is due to changes in @INC introduced in that version; MakeMaker will install your module into directories which are not searched by earlier Perl packages. 'perl-base' is not intended to provide a general purpose Perl interpreter. With very few exceptions, if you are packaging Perl modules, you need a dependency on 'perl'. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
