On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 07:47:41PM +0300, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:
>
> > This package uses modules from perl/perl-modules-5.xx (at least
> > File::Find) on both build and run time, so it should declare corresponding
> > dependencies on perl. The preferred way to declare the run time
> > dependency is to use ${perl:Depends}, as per the Debian Perl Policy.
>
> Seems I am missing something. dh_perl only produces
> ${perl:Depends}=perl to me. Is it expected that dh_perl would produce
> following list, which I manually put into Depends?
>
> libparse-debcontrol-perl,
> libhtml-linkextractor-perl,
> libfile-chdir-perl,
> libreadonly-perl,
> libcarp-assert-perl,
> liblist-moreutils-perl,
> libparse-debianchangelog-perl,
No, dh_perl unfortunately doesn't work like that. ${perl:Depends}=perl
is the expected behaviour, and you're still supposed to list the module
packages manually. See for instance #81547.
> Also I tried `perl-depends', but it hanged for me. If you are
> interested, I can provide details.
I have never tried perl-depends. You may want to ask its maintainer
and/or file a bug, although #784025 indicates it may be simply broken.
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