Bug#525190: debian-policy: Please drop perl >= 5.6 from (Build-|)Depends requirements

[Cyril Brulebois]

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 am is your
friend).

Mraw,
KiBi.

>From 83da8608b0a277274fba1e67fe22b24703539dbf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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 5.8).
---
 perl-policy.sgml |   11 -----------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
index 1421b46..1d26df7 100644
--- a/perl-policy.sgml
+++ b/perl-policy.sgml
@@ -319,10 +319,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
            (nominally just tmp)</p>
          </footnote>
        </p>
-       <p>
-         A <tt>Build-Depends</tt> on <tt>perl (>= 5.6.0-16)</tt> is
-         required.
-       </p>
       </sect>
 
       <sect id="module_deps">
@@ -342,13 +338,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
            the minimum required version, or more simply the current
            version.
          </p>
-         <p>
-           In the absence of an explicit requirement,
-           architecture-independent modules must depend on a minimum
-           <package>perl</package> or <package>perl-base</package>
-           version of <tt>5.6.0-16</tt> due to the changes in
-           <tt>@INC</tt> introduced by that version.
-         </p>
        </sect1>
 
        <sect1 id="binary_modules">
-- 
1.6.2.2