On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 05:52:46PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Don Armstrong] > > > I actually suggested that perl-modules recommend perl, but that was > > > rejected for the reason that perl-modules doesn't do anything useful > > > without perl. > > > > You sure? > > I'm sure that it was the reason given, but I didn't have time to > investigate whether it was true or not.
I don't think I was involved in that particular conversation, but I listed a couple of the dependencies in #527917: perl-modules -> perl Unicode::UCD -> Storable Module::Build -> Data::Dumper perl -> perl-modules B::Lint -> Module::Pluggable Time::Piece -> Time::Local While this doesn't imply perl-modules is unusable without perl, getting a broken Module::Build when installing without recommends doesn't seem like a good thing. Particularly as perl-modules Provides: libmodule-build-perl. The only tool I'm aware of that actually breaks with the circular dependency is piuparts. FWIW, as I said in #536384 I don't have a strong opinion about the merge myself. Both Brendan [1] and Eugene seem to want it though, so I saw no reason to block Eugene's efforts. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=536384#62 -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
