Bug#757891: init-system-helpers: Please do not depend on perl

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Samuel,

Samuel Thibault <sthibault at debian.org> writes:
> perl is separate from perl-base so that in tight environement, Debian
> can be installed with only perl-base. A base system installed by d-i,
> notably, is supposed to only install perl-base, not perl.  It happens
> however that d-i installs rsyslog, which depends on init-system-helpers,
> which depends on perl.  Is the whole perl really needed?  If some
> modules are needed, they could be moved to perl-base, to save having to
> install the whole perl on all Debian base systems.
init-system-helpers uses File::Path, File::Basename, File::Find and
Text::ParseWords — none of them is in perl-base.

Please report back once you’ve made perl-base contain all of them.

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Best regards,
Michael