Bug#588427: libuuid-perl: needlessly depends on full perl package when it could use perl-base

[Ian Campbell]

Package: libuuid-perl
Version: 0.02-3+b1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

libuuid-perl depends on the full perl package and I believe it only actualy
requires the functionality of perl-base.

This is of interest because the linux-base package (which is depended on by all
linux-image packages) uses libuuid-perl and this dependency therefore pulls perl
into the base system and forces it onto first ISO images etc.

I think this is trivially resolved by the patch below.

Ian.

--- libuuid-perl-0.02/debian/rules
+++ libuuid-perl-0.02/debian/rules
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 	gzip -9f $(CURDIR)/debian/$(package)/usr/share/man/man3/UUID.3pm \
 		$(CURDIR)/debian/$(package)/usr/share/doc/$(package)/changelog.Debian \
 		$(CURDIR)/debian/$(package)/usr/share/doc/$(package)/changelog
-	echo $$(perl -MConfig -e 'printf "perl:Depends=perlapi-%s", $$Config{version}'), perl '(>=' $$(dpkg -s perl | awk '/^Version:/ {print $$2}')')' > debian/$(package).substvars
+	echo $$(perl -MConfig -e 'printf "perl:Depends=perlapi-%s", $$Config{version}'), perl-base '(>=' $$(dpkg -s perl | awk '/^Version:/ {print $$2}')')' > debian/$(package).substvars
 	dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/$(package).substvars debian/$(package)/usr/lib/perl5/auto/UUID/UUID.so
 
 	dpkg-gencontrol -ldebian/changelog -isp -Tdebian/$(package).substvars -Pdebian/$(package)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libuuid-perl depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.1-3   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3   Universally Unique ID library
ii  perl                          5.10.1-13  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base [perlapi-5.10.0]    5.10.1-13  minimal Perl system

libuuid-perl recommends no packages.

libuuid-perl suggests no packages.

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