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 from outdated versions of perl - changing the values in 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 -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'