Bug#757891: init-system-helpers: Please do not depend on perl

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi Martin,

Martin Pitt <mpitt at debian.org> writes:
> I'm in a similar situation with postgresql-common. It only uses
> perl-base, and I replaced things like the above with plain
> perl code (very simple for Basename, a bit more involved for
> ParseWords), or with calling programs (for Find). Would that be
> acceptable for you? I can look into this.
Thanks for your offer, but I’m not interested in crippling my code or
duplicating functionality. That’s what these Perl modules are there for,
and they are not non-standard at all.

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Best regards,
Michael