Bug#393478: libcrypt-des-perl: FTBFS: Is the Build-Depends on libcrypt-cbc-perl really necessary?

[Andreas Jochens]

Hello,

thank your for your reply to my report.

On 06-Oct-16 20:41, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Crypt::CBC is used in 'test.pl', run in the 'make test' step of building
> the package. It's in the Build-Depends to ensure complete test coverage,
> since otherwise some of the tests would be skipped.

OK, I missed that.

> Could you please explain why is this a problem? Is the package failing
> to build for you, as mentioned in the title ('FTBFS')?

It is not really a problem. 

I just tried to rebuild the complete archive from scratch and the 
circular Build-Dependens between libcrypt-des-perl and libcrypt-cbc-perl 
was somewhat problematic in this context. Both packages failed to 
autobuild and I had to try to build one of them by hand without 
using the other one.

Regards
Andreas Jochens