Dariush Pietrzak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Source: libxml-mini-perl > Section: perl > Priority: optional > Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4), perl (>= 5.8.0-7) > Maintainer: Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Standards-Version: 3.5.10
> This is still strange, why is perl >= 5.8.0-7 supposed to be needed to > build this, but not neccessary to run... Oh, you're talking about the build dependency. Sorry, should have checked that. > Identical control files can be found in Crypt::CBC and RPC::XML, could it > be that this is artifact of some dev tool? dh-make-perl adds that dependency. I think it has a reason for doing that, though, probably for packaging reasons to make sure the normal build rules put things in the right place. Dependencies are intended to ensure that the right things happen within the *Debian* packaging context; they're not just for compatibility of the package itself with particular versions of Perl. In particular, if there are Debian-specific fixes to ExtUtils::MakeMaker for FHS compliance or the like, Debian Perl packages may depend on the first version of Perl with those fixes, even if the actual Perl code would work with a far earlier version of Perl. But yeah, they make backports annoying. Hopefully that will become a much simpler problem in a month or so with a new Debian stable release. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
