On Mon Apr 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM BST, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2025-04-28 15:57 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
"apt-cache show perl" lists it as "Build-Essential: yes". But why? It's
not in the transitive dependencies of build-essential,
It is, dpkg-dev depends on perl:any.
Thanks! For reasons I cannot explain, installing build-essential (in a
Salsa CI environment) did not pull in perl.
The tag is coming from an FTP Master override, see
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/override.sid.extra.main.gz.
Double-Thanks! (This seems likely true for all packages with
Build-Essential: yes)
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