On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:03:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes:
From: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (= 5.6.0-16).
This version of perl is so obsolete that
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:03:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes:
From: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (= 5.6.0-16).
This version of perl is so obsolete that
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 01:28:23PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:03:19PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes:
From: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|)
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes:
I agree that the requirement for = 5.6.0-16 should be removed but
probably the requirement for 'Build-Depends: perl' should be kept ?
Or maybe I am missing the big picture ?
There's earlier text in the same section outside the context
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes:
I agree that the requirement for = 5.6.0-16 should be removed but
probably the requirement for 'Build-Depends: perl' should be kept ?
Or maybe I am missing the big picture ?
There's earlier text
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:29:27PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
perl is build essential. dpkg-dev depends on it.
dpkg-dev's dependency on perl is an implementation detail, not a guaranteed
build-essential interface.
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:47:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 02:29:27PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
perl is build essential. dpkg-dev depends on it.
dpkg-dev's dependency on perl is an implementation detail, not a guaranteed
build-essential interface.
That might
Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes:
From: Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Drop (build|) dependencies on perl (= 5.6.0-16).
This version of perl is so obsolete that dropping any reference to it
makes sense (even oldstable has perl
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.1.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
As discussed on -devel -policy, here's a patch to stop mentioning perl
5.6 in Depends and Build-Depends.
A reference to 5.6 remains in the “Perl 6” part, though.
Attaching the result of git format-patch against master (git
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