[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#860254: Bug#860254:

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2017-04-20 09:35:27 [+0000], Jonathon Delgado wrote:
> Even if something in this script requires full perl, many ca-certificate users won't run it after the initial install (of ca-certificates), and apt won't let me uninstall just perl because of the hard dependency.

The openssl package ships perl scripts. Those scripts require perl which
means that this package depends on perl and this dependency is
automatically added by debhelper as per policy.

Why the need for the `openssl' but no `perl' package? I don't have a
single a box around without perl installed.

Sebastian