Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I find disturbing that there are often dependencies without a > reason for them, for example XML::Mini - very simple perl-only module, > that works very well under earlier perls just fine. In fact I've got ~60 > modules around here that I rebuild for woody's perl by downgrading this > false dependancy on 5.8.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Package: libxml-mini-perl Priority: optional Section: perl Installed-Size: 228 Maintainer: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 1.2.8-1 Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) Filename: pool/main/libx/libxml-mini-perl/libxml-mini-perl_1.2.8-1_all.deb Size: 64978 MD5sum: 41edf9e1420f67155b92187a9de76764 Description: Perl implementation of the MiniXML XML generator and parser XML::Mini is a set of Perl classes that allow you to access XML data and create valid XML output with a tree-based hierarchy of elements. . It provides an easy, object-oriented interface for manipulating XML documents and their elements. It is currently being used to send requests and understand responses from remote servers in Perl applications. . XML::Mini does not require any external libraries or modules and is pure Perl. Where's the dependency on Perl 5.8? Note that essentially all Perl packages in Debian will depend on at least Perl *5.6* for packaging-related reasons, so that they'll install in the right place. That sort of constraint is unavoidable when you need to be able to support Perl module builds as cleanly as Debian does. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
