From: Renato Botelho Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:02:38 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove perl dependant commands if NO_PERL is set Message-ID: <86C44806-98FB-4E67-83DF-197103B48BB2@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: > On Sep 3, 2015, at 16:56, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Renato Botelho 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. Even if it’s a bug that produce a broken installation? Nevermind, I’ll add the patch into FreeBSD ports so FreeBSD users can have a sane package installed. -- Renato Botelho