Le 26/01/2026 à 13:28, Matthew Lear a écrit :
Hello,
Following the guidelines from https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
<https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting> I'm requesting advice on what
package to file my bug against. The bug relates to whether Perl
should be a package dependency of linux-base. Package linux-base
provides /usr/bin/linux-version which can be invoked by many things that
interact with initramfs / firmware generation, kernel level build stuff.
If perl is not installed the invocation will fail. If this occurs when
creating a chroot (eg via mmdebstrap as we are), this breaks the build.
A workaround is to specify perl in the list of packages that get
installed in the chroot.
While package linux-base does not require perl, it installs a script
that if invoked will fail to run if perl is not installed. This problem
goes unnoticed if installing a system from minbase or friends (because
perl is pulled by something), but it shows up if doing a custom
chroot build where a specific list of packages is used (and therefore
expected to be installed in) the chroot.
Should I raise this as a bug against linux-base? It seems reasonable. If
not, which package would be appropriate?
Many thanks,
-- Matt
Hello Matt,
I don't know if perl should be a dependency of linux-base but is
perl-base installed on this system?
didier@hp-notebook14:~$ apt show perl-base
Package: perl-base
Version: 5.40.1-6
Priority: required
[...]
didier@hp-notebook14:~$ LANG=en-US.UTF-8; apt list '~prequired'
apt/stable,now 3.0.3 amd64 [installed]
base-files/stable,now 13.8+deb13u3 amd64 [installed]
base-passwd/stable,now 3.6.7 amd64 [installed]
bash/stable,now 5.2.37-2+b7 amd64 [installed]
bsdutils/stable,now 1:2.41-5 amd64 [installed]
coreutils/stable,now 9.7-3 amd64 [installed]
dash/stable,now 0.5.12-12 amd64 [installed]
debconf/stable,now 1.5.91 all [installed]
debianutils/stable,now 5.23.2 amd64 [installed]
diffutils/stable,now 1:3.10-4 amd64 [installed]
dpkg/stable,now 1.22.21 amd64 [installed]
findutils/stable,now 4.10.0-3 amd64 [installed]
grep/stable,now 3.11-4 amd64 [installed]
gzip/stable,now 1.13-1 amd64 [installed]
hostname/stable,now 3.25 amd64 [installed]
init-system-helpers/stable,now 1.69~deb13u1 all [installed]
libc-bin/stable,now 2.41-12+deb13u1 amd64 [installed]
libpam-modules-bin/stable,now 1.7.0-5 amd64 [installed]
libpam-modules/stable,now 1.7.0-5 amd64 [installed]
libpam-runtime/stable,now 1.7.0-5 all [installed]
login.defs/stable,now 1:4.17.4-2 all [installed,automatic]
login/stable,now 1:4.16.0-2+really2.41-5 amd64 [installed]
mawk/stable,now 1.3.4.20250131-1 amd64 [installed]
mount/stable,now 2.41-5 amd64 [installed]
ncurses-base/stable,now 6.5+20250216-2 all [installed]
ncurses-bin/stable,now 6.5+20250216-2 amd64 [installed]
passwd/stable,now 1:4.17.4-2 amd64 [installed]
perl-base/stable,now 5.40.1-6 amd64 [installed]
sed/stable,now 4.9-2 amd64 [installed]
sysvinit-utils/stable,now 3.14-4 amd64 [installed]
tar/stable,now 1.35+dfsg-3.1 amd64 [installed]
tzdata/stable,now 2025b-4+deb13u1 all [installed]
util-linux/stable,now 2.41-5 amd64 [installed]
