From: Matthias Urlichs Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:15:42 GMT Subject: Re: Request for help from binary packaging people. Message-ID: 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. -- Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de Disclaimer: The quote was selected randomly. Really. | http://smurf.noris.de - - "I say we take off; nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Corporal Hicks, in "Aliens"