On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:30:24 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Now that I go and look at the code, I remember what's going on here. We > dropped the allowance and requirement for libmodule-build-perl in 2.1.0. > > + [RA] Stop checking for a libmodule-build-perl build dependency since > Module::Build now comes with Perl. Thanks, Raphael Hertzog. > (Closes: #506697) > > Since it comes with Perl, there's little point in having the dependency, > and Lintian was giving spurious tags asking people to add it.
Ah, right, I forgot about that change ...
> I suppose that we could add it back in as an allowable but not required
> dependency if there's some reason not to just drop the dependency
> entirely.
Hm.
It's right that Module::Build comes with Perl, but only since version
5.10.
What I usually do is to write a build dependency like
"perl-modules (>= 5.10) | libmodule-build-perl"
to make the build process do "the right thing" for older and new perl
versions.
Cheers,
gregor
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