On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:03:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois writes:
>
> > From: Cyril Brulebois
> > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (>= 5.6.0-16).
> >
> > This version of perl is so obsolete that dropping any refer
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:47:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:29:27PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > perl is build essential. dpkg-dev depends on it.
>
> dpkg-dev's dependency on perl is an implementation detail, not a guaranteed
> build-essential interface.
That mi
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:29:27PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> perl is build essential. dpkg-dev depends on it.
dpkg-dev's dependency on perl is an implementation detail, not a guaranteed
build-essential interface.
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Deb
Russ Allbery writes:
> Bill Allombert writes:
>> I agree that the requirement for >= 5.6.0-16 should be removed but
>> probably the requirement for 'Build-Depends: perl' should be kept ?
>> Or maybe I am missing the big picture ?
> There's earlier text in the same section outside the context ra
Bill Allombert writes:
> I agree that the requirement for >= 5.6.0-16 should be removed but
> probably the requirement for 'Build-Depends: perl' should be kept ?
> Or maybe I am missing the big picture ?
There's earlier text in the same section outside the context range that
requires a dependenc
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:28:23PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:03:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Cyril Brulebois writes:
> >
> > > From: Cyril Brulebois
> > > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
> > > Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (>= 5.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:03:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Cyril Brulebois writes:
>
> > From: Cyril Brulebois
> > Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (>= 5.6.0-16).
> >
> > This version of perl is so obsolete that dropping any refer
Cyril Brulebois writes:
> From: Cyril Brulebois
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (>= 5.6.0-16).
>
> This version of perl is so obsolete that dropping any reference to it
> makes sense (even oldstable has perl 5.8).
> ---
> perl-policy
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
As discussed on -devel & -policy, here's a patch to stop mentioning perl
5.6 in Depends and Build-Depends.
A reference to 5.6 remains in the “Perl 6” part, though.
Attaching the result of git format-patch against master (git
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