*Joey Hess wrote: > Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > If so, it is a BIG problem. I really want my packages to be installable on > > slink (until the final release of potato) because most users will not want > > (rightly) to upgrade to unstable. dupload, for instance, is a simple Perl > > script, which is happy with any perl >= 5.003 and I don't want to produce a > > package which will not be installable on slink, without a good reason. > > Why does a simple perl script need to depend on perl at all? Does it use > things not in perl-base?
I'm not sure what constitutes 'simple'. This is from /usr/bin/dupload : use strict; use 5.003; # Because of the prototypes use Cwd; use Getopt::Long; Not in perl-base use File::Basename; use Net::FTP; Not there use English; Not there -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre

