Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> writes:
> On 2020-11-27 10:28 -0400, David Bremner wrote:
>
>> I'm talking about remove polymake/arm64, not perl.
>
> Right, but perl build-depends on polymake, so with no polymake we
> can't update perl (e.g. for security reasons)
>
That doesn't make sense to me. Polymake is software for mathematical
research, which happens to be a perl extension.
apt showsrc perl says:
Package: perl
Binary: perl-base, perl-doc, perl-debug, libperl5.32, libperl-dev,
perl-modules-5.32, perl
Version: 5.32.0-5
Maintainer: Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org>
Uploaders: Dominic Hargreaves <d...@earth.li>
Build-Depends: file, cpio, libdb-dev, libgdbm-dev (>= 1.18-3),
libgdbm-compat-dev, netbase <!nocheck>,
procps [!hurd-any] <!nocheck>, debhelper-compat (= 13),
zlib1g-dev | libz-dev,
libbz2-dev, dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.14), dist (>= 3.5-236), libc6-dev
(>= 2.19-9) [s390x]
Version: 5.30.3-4
Build-Depends: file, cpio, libdb-dev, libgdbm-dev (>= 1.18-3),
libgdbm-compat-dev, netbase <!nocheck>, procps [!hurd-any]
<!nocheck>,
debhelper-compat (= 13), zlib1g-dev | libz-dev, libbz2-dev,
dpkg-dev (>=
1.17.14), dist (>= 3.5-236), libc6-dev (>= 2.19-9) [s390x]
