> Most likely people don't want to support perl less than 5.8, or feel that > they are justified in insisting that people upgrade to a newer perl if > they want to do serious development. I'd consider such reasons abusing one's power as maintainer, I sure hope noone is doing such things, and as far as I understand debian contract prevents should prevent people from doing such bad things. This must be something else.
> This is a pretty sane attitude for a package maintainer to have, to be > honest. Whether it is "true" or not - whether the package CAN be built usually such behaviour is being struck down - for example marking package as buildable only on x86, while it can be made to work on wider range of architectures. > with an older perl or not - is *completely* irrelevant. I'd consider defining smallest possible set of dependencies good practice, maybe I should learn something? -- Dariush Pietrzak, Key fingerprint = 40D0 9FFB 9939 7320 8294 05E0 BCC7 02C4 75CC 50D9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
