Why erlang dep-waits for perl 5.10?

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi!

Is there a reason why erlang dep-waits for perl 5.10? Perl is used
only for generaring documentation index and fixing bugs in manual
pages. It doesn't matter which perl version is used for that.

Please, remove this unnecessary dep-wait.

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[Cyril Brulebois-4]

On 21/05/2008, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> Hi!

Hi,

> Is there a reason why erlang dep-waits for perl 5.10? Perl is used
> only for generaring documentation index and fixing bugs in manual
> pages. It doesn't matter which perl version is used for that.

might have been triggered during the perl transition?

> Please, remove this unnecessary dep-wait.

Perl is build-essential, please also drop it from your Build-Depends.

> Sergei Golovan
>
> PS. CC me in replies since I'm not subscribed to debian-bsd.

Done.

Mraw,
KiBi.

[Sergei Golovan]

On 5/21/08, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@...> wrote:
> On 21/05/2008, Sergei Golovan wrote:
>
>  > Please, remove this unnecessary dep-wait.
>
> Perl is build-essential, please also drop it from your Build-Depends.

I'll remove it at the next upload. Thanks for pointing to this.

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[Y Giridhar Appaji Nag]

On 08/05/21 14:24 +0400, Sergei Golovan said ...
> On 5/21/08, Cyril Brulebois <kibi@...> wrote:
> > On 21/05/2008, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> >
> >  > Please, remove this unnecessary dep-wait.
> >
> > Perl is build-essential, please also drop it from your Build-Depends.
>
> I'll remove it at the next upload. Thanks for pointing to this.

perl-base is build-essential but perl is not.

Cheers,

Giridhar

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[Cyril Brulebois-4]

On 21/05/2008, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> perl-base is build-essential but perl is not.

I beg to differ.

$ apt-cache show perl | grep ^Build-Essential
Build-Essential: yes

Mraw,
KiBi.

[Y Giridhar Appaji Nag]

On 08/05/21 13:26 +0200, Cyril Brulebois said ...
> On 21/05/2008, Y Giridhar Appaji Nag wrote:
> > perl-base is build-essential but perl is not.
>
> I beg to differ.
>
> $ apt-cache show perl | grep ^Build-Essential
> Build-Essential: yes

You are right, I stand corrected.

I followed policy (4.2 Package relationships) which pointed me to
/usr/share/build-essential/list which indicated that it includes
/usr/share/build-essential/essential-packages-list and neither of the lists
had perl, only perl-base was in essential-packages-list.

That misled me because make was listed explicitly and I thought all packages
that dpkg-dev depends on would also be listed explicitly.  Turns out that
perl, cpio etc.  that dpkg-dev depends on are not listed, but they are marked
Build-Essential: yes.

Thanks for pointing out.  I will go and fix my packages :)

Cheers,

Giridhar

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[Aurelien Jarno]

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:46:36PM +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Is there a reason why erlang dep-waits for perl 5.10? Perl is used

Because wanna-build added it, I guess because erlang build-depends on
perl.

> only for generaring documentation index and fixing bugs in manual
> pages. It doesn't matter which perl version is used for that.
>
> Please, remove this unnecessary dep-wait.
>

Done, I hope it won't reappear.

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