Re: Request for help from binary packaging people.

From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Aug 10, 2005, 21:15 UTC
Message-ID: <pan.2005.08.10.21.15.41.143251@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vwtmw5nx7.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> For Debian, we recommend lib*-*-perl packages.  Do we need to recommend
> perl itself as well, or is it the case that things that are covered with
> the automatic dependency chain need not be listed?

No, yes.  ;-)

What happens if the lib*-perl packages are not installed? If some scripts break, that's a Bad Thing, and would require those packages to be moved to Depends:.

> Earlier I said that
> the Debian side is reasonably accurate to the best of my knowledge, but I
> would appreciate it if somebody ran lintian on it.

Will do.

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