On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 17:36 +1100, William ML Leslie wrote: > On 5 January 2016 at 16:56, Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > BTW: Why does Hurd contain such crappy dependencies such as perl. Is this > > part > > of upstream or Debian specific? The Debian package does not have it: > > apt-cache showsrc hurd | grep Build-Depends | grep -i perl > > <empty> > > Is there more perl code in upstream Hurd? If not, how about rewrite this > > code > > snippet in C and "remove a should be added" language dependency! > > > > It's used by a ported linux driver as part of libdde, as the path of > the patch indicates.
Well, the source is from the Hurd package, not netdde. It's inĀ hurd_0.7.orig-libdde-linux26.tar.bz2 so a build dependency on perl should be added to the Hurd source package.