Bug#504042: package perl-doc gets installed implicitly

2008-10-31 Thread Niko Tyni
reopen 504042 reassign 504042 perl forcemerge 442805 504042 On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 08:52:52AM +0200, Juha Heinanen wrote: Niko Tyni writes: The perl package Recommends: perl-doc by design, as the documentation is intended to be installed by default. See #442805 for the background.

Bug#504042: package perl-doc gets installed implicitly

2008-10-31 Thread Juha Heinanen
Niko Tyni writes: As discussed in #442805, the fact that the documentation is split out at all is already a compromise between the wishes of the perl development community and the disk space usage. I'm merging the bugs, but please note that #442805 is tagged as 'wontfix' and I'm not

Bug#504042: package perl-doc gets installed implicitly

2008-10-30 Thread Juha Heinanen
Package: perl-doc Version: 5.10.0-16 When I install Lenny, package perl-doc gets installed implicitly as a side effect of installing some other package (I don't know which). However, no package really depends on perl-doc, because I can remove it and no other package gets removed (see below) with