Lars Wirzenius <l...@catalyst.net.nz> writes: > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-perl.html > says in section 2.2 (Base Package):
> As Perl is currently used by such things as update-alternatives and > some package maintainer scripts, it must be priority required and > marked as essential. > If I am reading the section correctly, the "it" in "it must be" refers > to perl-base, not Perl as a language. If I am correct, I think it would > be clearer to replace "it" with "perl-base". Thanks for pointing that out. The following paragraph was a bit inaccurate as well. I've made the following change for the next version of Policy. I believe this is just editorial and doesn't change the expressed requirements, so I just made it, but please let me know if anyone sees problems with the new wording. diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml index 1d26df7..ef1fbe6 100644 --- a/perl-policy.sgml +++ b/perl-policy.sgml @@ -103,18 +103,18 @@ the binary and a basic set of modules. </p> <p> - As Perl is currently used by such things as - <file>update-alternatives</file> and some package maintainer - scripts, it must be priority <em>required</em> and marked as - <em>essential</em>. + As Perl has been part of the essential set for some time and is + used without dependencies by such things as package maintainer + scripts, <package>perl-base</package> must be + priority <em>required</em> and marked as <em>essential</em>. </p> <p> Note that the <package>perl-base</package> package is intended only to provide for exceptional circumstances and the contents - may change. In general only packages which form part of the - base system should declare a dependency on - <package>perl-base</package> rather than - <package>perl</package>. + may change. In general, only packages which form part of the + base system should use only the facilities + of <package>perl-base</package> rather than declaring a + dependency on <package>perl</package>. </p> </sect> -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874ohlbcn6....@windlord.stanford.edu