On 2014-03-19 07:21, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Wed, 19 Mar 2014 06:52:56 Niels Thykier wrote: >> Why is "perl" needed rather than "perl-base" (which is essential). The >> patch seems to be using none of the modules from perl or perl-modules > > Good point. It's just that dependencies on "perl-base" are so rare probably > because ${perl:Depends} never expands as "perl-base" but only as "perl". > > I'll update dependency to "perl-base". I think it should be just enough. > Thanks. >
Actually, you should probably just drop the dependency, since perl-base is essential (and therefore causes a lintian error if you depend on it without version). ~Niels __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.