Package: src:mariadb Version: 1:11.8.3-1 Owner: o...@debian.org The MariaDB client package has multiple Perl dependencies, which should be reviewed and potentially lowered to 'Suggests'
Current control file: Package: mariadb-client Architecture: any Depends: debianutils (>=1.6), libconfig-inifiles-perl, mariadb-client-core (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ... Recommends: libdbd-mariadb-perl | libdbd-mysql-perl, libdbi-perl, libterm-readkey-perl, Description: MariaDB database client binaries MariaDB is a fast, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. SQL (Structured Query Language) is the most popular database query language in the world. The main goals of MariaDB are speed, robustness and ease of use. . This package includes the client binaries and the additional tools innotop and mariadb-report (mysqlreport). Most MariaDB client programs are in C/C++, but these are Perl (quick list based on iterating over the files with `file`): /usr/bin/innotop: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-access: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-convert-table-format: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-dumpslow: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-find-rows: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-fix-extensions: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-hotcopy: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-report: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mariadb-setpermission: Perl script text executable /usr/bin/mytop: Perl script text executable