Package: mime-support Version: 3.64 Severity: serious On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 09:09:01AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 01:52:19PM +1000, Jai Flack wrote: > > Forgive me if this is an ignorant question but isn't mailcap missing > > dependencies? If I build, then install all three and then ask apt about > > mailcap's dependencies it gives: > > [...] > > > But the script it installs clearly depends on Perl: > > > > #! /usr/bin/perl > > > Is this an exception because Perl is part of the base system and assumed > > to always be installed? > > perl-base is essential.
Indeed. However, the script in question (/usr/bin/run-mailcap) uses modules not shipped in perl-base. use Encode qw(decode); use I18N::Langinfo qw(langinfo CODESET); So yes, the mime-support package in sid is missing a dependency on perl. This seems to have regressed in 3.55 with the fix for #682900. Filing a bug about this, thanks for noticing. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org