On Fri, Jun 19 2009, 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 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/<tmp>/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/<tmp>/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">
>
> Seconded. (Sorry about the long delay in review.)
>
> This patch needs one more second to be queued for the next release of
> Policy.
Seconded.
manoj
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