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

[Samuel Thibault]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 perl-base
Control: retitle -2 perl-base: Please include File::Path, File::Basename, File::Find, Text::ParseWords

Michael Stapelberg, le Tue 12 Aug 2014 09:02:59 +0200, a écrit :
> > It happens
> > that d-i installs rsyslog, which depends on init-system-helpers,
> > which depends on perl.  Is the whole perl really needed?  If some
> > modules are needed, they could be moved to perl-base, to save having to
> > install the whole perl on all Debian base systems.
> init-system-helpers uses File::Path, File::Basename, File::Find and
> Text::ParseWords — none of them is in perl-base.
> 
> Please report back once you’ve made perl-base contain all of them.

Well, it's not me to be convinced, but the perl-base maintainers. Please
discuss it with them.

Samuel