Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: minor http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-perl.html says in section 2.2 (Base Package):
As Perl is currently used by such things as update-alternatives and some package maintainer scripts, it must be priority required and marked as essential. If I am reading the section correctly, the "it" in "it must be" refers to perl-base, not Perl as a language. If I am correct, I think it would be clearer to replace "it" with "perl-base". -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: pn doc-base <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org