Svante Signell, on Tue 05 Jan 2016 08:30:51 +0100, wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 17:36 +1100, William ML Leslie wrote:
> > On 5 January 2016 at 16:56, Svante Signell wrote:
> > > BTW: Why does Hurd contain such crappy dependencies such as perl. Is this
> > > part
> > > of upstream or Debian speci
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 11:09:00PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 22:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, on Mon 04 Jan 2016 22:02:02 +0100, wrote:
> > > - @val = @{$canned_values{$hz}};
> > > - if (!defined(@val)) {
> > > - @val = compute_values($hz);
On 5 Jan 2016 13:27, "Samuel Thibault" wrote:
>
> > Well, the source is from the Hurd package, not netdde. It's in
> > hurd_0.7.orig-libdde-linux26.tar.bz2
>
> See the file name.
And since this tarball is part of the hurd source it should depend on perl.
(that part you edited away from my mail)
Svante Signell, on Tue 05 Jan 2016 14:49:40 +0100, wrote:
> On 5 Jan 2016 13:27, "Samuel Thibault" <[1]samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Well, the source is from the Hurd package, not netdde. It's in
> > > hurd_0.7.orig-libdde-linux26.tar.bz2
> >
> > See the file name.
>
> And since this
On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 06:56:37 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> BTW: Why does Hurd contain such crappy dependencies such as perl.
This comment seems unnecessarily abrasive and out of place…
> Is this part of upstream or Debian specific? The Debian package does not
> have it:
> apt-cache showsrc hu
Guillem Jover, on Wed 06 Jan 2016 03:25:27 +0100, wrote:
> $ apt-cache show perl-base|grep Essential
> Essential: yes
> $ apt-cache show perl|grep Essential
> Build-Essential: yes
Ah, I was wondering. I knew that perl was not essential, but didn't know
perl was build-essential.
Anyway, it's point
