Bug#1001173: Moo: Should use Depends for libclass-xsaccessor-perl (instead of Recoomends)

intrigeri intrigeri at debian.org
Sun Dec 5 19:29:19 GMT 2021


Hi,

Graham Knop (2021-12-05):
> I'm the maintainer of Moo.

I'm seizing this opportunity to thank you for your work. Moo is one of
the few reasons why I still enjoy writing Perl code when possible :)

> The reason Class::XSAccessor isn't listed as a hard prerequisite is
> that Moo is intended to be compatible with systems without a compiler
> available. Since XS modules require a compiler, Moo does not have any
> non-core hard dependencies that use XS. When packaging for Debian (or
> any other dist) it would be entirely reasonable to list it as a hard
> prereq.

Thanks for the clarification.

I'll go ahead and implement this change.

Cheers!



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