On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 04:49:46PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > I presume that once all of this is done, debhelper can then depend on > "perl | perl-stage1", which would allow the normal perl packages to > build-depend on debhelper.
This all seems unnecessary nowadays. debhelper is Multi-Arch: foreign, so when you're doing the initial stages of cross-building a new port you could surely just use the perl from the architecture you're building from. Of course this implies having all the necessary cross support, but I don't think that having a stage1 perl for the sake of debhelper, or avoiding debhelper in perl's own packaging, helps anything. (This was all doubtless entirely different pre-multiarch; I'm not criticising decisions made back then.) -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
