Bug#720331: libnet-ldap-perl depends on libwww-perl. Why?

2013-12-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Xavier, Xavier wrote: > feature 'LWP support for the LDAP protocol family' requires > LWP::Protocol which is provided by libwww-perl. So I think that > libwww-perl must be kept either on Depends: or Recommends: >From that description I'd even say it's only "Suggests", but also "Enhances".

Bug#720331: libnet-ldap-perl depends on libwww-perl. Why?

2013-12-22 Thread Xavier
Hi all, feature 'LWP support for the LDAP protocol family' requires LWP::Protocol which is provided by libwww-perl. So I think that libwww-perl must be kept either on Depends: or Recommends: Regards, Xavier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Bug#720331: libnet-ldap-perl depends on libwww-perl. Why?

2013-08-20 Thread Florian Schlichting
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:23:32PM +0200, John Hughes wrote: > Does libnet-ldap-perl realy need libwww-perl and all it's 20-odd dependancies? When we (Debian Perl team) took over maintenance of libnet-ldap-perl in 2008, it already had the dependency on libwww-perl. However, the package never had a

Bug#720331: libnet-ldap-perl depends on libwww-perl. Why?

2013-08-20 Thread John Hughes
Package: libnet-ldap-perl Version: 1:0.4400-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? I installed libnet-ldap-perl in order to query a ldap database * What was the outcome of this action? libwww-perl was installed, leading to a whole mess of depe