Every system comes with perl-base. The full perl package add a many megabytes
of libraries which is a problem for space-constrained systems.
Isn't the whole point of perl-base that packages won't have to depend on perl
just to run a few scripts?
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebast...@breakpoint.cc>
Sent: 21 April 2017 20:05
To: Jonathon Delgado; 860...@bugs.debian.org; Package Development List for
OpenSSL packages.
Subject: Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#860254:
The openssl package ships perl scripts. Those scripts require perl which
means that this package depends on perl and this dependency is
automatically added by debhelper as per policy.
Why the need for the `openssl' but no `perl' package? I don't have a
single a box around without perl installed.
Sebastian
