Re: [PATCH] Remove perl dependant commands if NO_PERL is set

> On Sep 3, 2015, at 16:56, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
>>> You also may want to hold off the "git-submodule" bit, as I expect
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/277128/focus=277129
>>> would be one of the first changes to be in 'master' after the
>>> upcoming release 2.6 (that is, it is likely that perl dependency
>>> would be removed in 2.7).
>> 
>> Can’t we add git-submodule to the list now, for 2.6, and then remove
>> it when this change is pushed? This would help to have a sane tarball
>> for 2.6. I’m considering this from a package maintainer perspective.
> 
> Not really.  Anything brand-new that comes this late in the cycle
> will not be in 2.6, so the earliest release this NO_PERL change can
> appear in is one after the upcoming release.