Bug#941232: libtext-wrapi18n-perl used to depend on perl-base, not perl

[Sven Joachim]

Control: tags -1 + patch

On 2019-09-26 14:24 -0600, Adam Conrad wrote:

> Package: libtext-wrapi18n-perl
> Version: 0.06-8
> Severity: normal
>
> The latest version of libtext-wrapi18n-perl is a packaging rewrite to
> use dh(1) (yay!), but seems to lose some magic from the older versions.
>
> Specifically, older versions of debconf deps like libtext-wrapi18n-perl
> had some magic in place to make sure they had perl-base and perlapi deps
> but didn't pull in the full perl package, so that having debconf-i18n at
> a high priority didn't drag all of perl in behind.
>
> If said magic could be rediscovered and restored, that would be lovely.

The magic is "dh_perl -d" which had been used in older versions[1], see
the attached patch.  The same recipe should work for #941233 as well.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libtext-wrapi18n-perl/blob/64412bf40dad2bae2a9270f7897ef2e383d3a735/debian/rules#L64

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