On 2016-01-23 Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote:
> There is a misconception underlying the bug report - perl-cross-debian
> *cannot* change these statements, these are *copies* of instructions
> from outdated versions of perl - changing the values in
> perl-cross-debian is pointless as the files in the patches directory
> relate to old versions of perl which would need a specialised
> environment to build. That environment is likely to need to be
> sufficiently old that the syntax is still supported - specifically
> jessie.
[...]


Thank you for the explanation. At least I was not misguided enough to
try a NMU.

cu Andreas

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