Package: lsof
Version: 4.86+dfsg-1
Followup-For: Bug #694351
As far as I can tell, the lsof executable is perfectly usable, and very
useful, without perl installed; and perl is only needed to run example
scripts.
Since
- this bug has been open since 2012;
- contrary to widespread belief, perl is not universally installed (e.g. name
servers, ntp servers);
- the dependence on perl bumps the disk requirements from 500 kB to ~27MB,
which is plain unacceptable on tight systems;
I propose to expedite its closing via a downgrade of the dependency from
"Depends:" to "Recommends:".
Best regards,
g1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lsof depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u1
ii perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u1
ii perl-modules [libperl4-corelibs-perl] 5.14.2-21+deb7u1
lsof recommends no packages.
lsof suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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