Bug#1019281: libnet-dns-perl: please adapt dependencies

[Thomas Uhle]

Package: libnet-dns-perl
Version: 1.29-1
Severity: normal
Control: found -1 1.34-1

Dear maintainers,

libnet-dns-perl has an unnecessary dependency on libnet-ip-perl because 
the module Net::IP is nowhere used nor is it referenced in META.json or 
META.yml (cf. https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-DNS) as far as I can see. 
And Test::More from libtest-simple-perl is just a build-time dependency. 
So this dependency could also be removed although it does not 
necessarily install another Debian package since it is also provided by 
package perl.

Net::DNS has support for and prefers Net::LibIDN2 since version 1.13 
which means for already some years.  But libnet-dns-perl still only 
recommends libnet-libidn-perl.  I know libnet-libidn2-perl has not yet 
been packaged (cf. RFP #1019279).  Even though could you please replace 
libnet-libidn-perl by 'libnet-libidn2-perl | libnet-libidn-perl'.

All this is also still true for the currently packaged version 1.34-1 in 
bookworm and sid.

Thank you in advance!

Thomas Uhle


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.5
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-17-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libnet-dns-perl depends on:
ii  libdigest-hmac-perl                    1.03+dfsg-2.1
ii  libdigest-sha-perl                     6.02-1+b3
ii  libnet-ip-perl                         1.26-2
ii  perl [libencode-perl]                  5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii  perl [libtest-simple-perl]             5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii  perl-base [libio-socket-ip-perl]       5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii  perl-base [libscalar-list-utils-perl]  5.32.1-4+deb11u2

Versions of packages libnet-dns-perl recommends:
ii  libdigest-bubblebabble-perl  0.02-2.1
ii  libnet-dns-sec-perl          1.18-1+b1
ii  libnet-libidn-perl           0.12.ds-3+b3
pn  libperl4-corelibs-perl       <none>

libnet-dns-perl suggests no packages.