Dirk Eddelbuettel writes ("Bug#4238: mirror requires perl"): ... > On the other hand, we seem to have (had ?) a policy of relying on (at least a > rudimentary) perl in the base system --- but I cannot find anything on that > in the programmers and policy manuals of dpkg-1.3.8. So should timezone.pl > move into base? Comments? Ian, Bruce?
I propose the following policy, which is roughly what we have at the moment: A basic version of Perl is shipped with the base system. This should be a separate package, say `perlbase'. If you only need this you don't need a dependency. If you need extra modules, &c, you must declare a dependency on `perl'. Ian.