Bug#1098508: adduser lacks dependency on libperl5.40 for Encode.pm

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 08:09:20PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 05:43:54PM +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > Hi perl Maintainers,
> > 
> > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 05:32:08PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > > adduser 3.139 uses Encode.pm but doesn't depend on the package providing
> > > it (libperl5.40 is optional). It's likely the package is still installed
> > > on most standard installations but it won't be on minimal installs
> 
> If a dependency is to be added, please make it 'perl' rather than
> 'libperl5.40'.

I'd rather pull the encode usage again instead of pulling a full perl
into all Debian installations. Adduser has code to pull in some other
dependencies conditionally, I'd like to have that for encode as well.
That doesn't work at the moment though.

Greetings
Marc

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