On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:52:56 Niels Thykier wrote:
Why is perl needed rather than perl-base (which is essential). The
patch seems to be using none of the modules from perl or perl-modules
Good point. It's just that dependencies on perl-base are so rare probably
because ${perl:Depends} never
On 2014-03-19 07:21, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:52:56 Niels Thykier wrote:
Why is perl needed rather than perl-base (which is essential). The
patch seems to be using none of the modules from perl or perl-modules
Good point. It's just that dependencies on perl-base are so
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 07:23:24 Niels Thykier wrote:
because never expands as perl-base but only as perl.
Actually, you should probably just drop the dependency, since perl-base
is essential (and therefore causes a lintian error if you depend on it
without version).
You're right,
This bug (potentially) affect ~40 packages... Would you like a friendly NMU to
fix it?
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Hi Dmitry,
I checked the suggested regexp and I confirm it parses properly the
manifest entries. It's a bit sad to add a dependency on perl just for
this though.
Could you please commit your changes on alioth and upload a regular
update instead? That would save the need to ack a NMU.
Emmanuel
Hi Emmanuel,
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:33:50 Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
I checked the suggested regexp and I confirm it parses properly the
manifest entries. It's a bit sad to add a dependency on perl just for
this though.
Thanks for double-checking my fix. Although I added perl to Depends I'm not
On 2014-03-19 02:23, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
Hi Emmanuel,
Hi,
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:33:50 Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
I checked the suggested regexp and I confirm it parses properly the
manifest entries. It's a bit sad to add a dependency on perl just for
this though.
Thanks for
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