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

[Michael Stapelberg]

I’ve pushed a couple of commits, see
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/init-system-helpers.git/ —
can you please confirm that I didn’t miss anything and uploading that
version fixes the problem?

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 09:02:59AM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Reporting.
>
> (Excluding File::Find, which doesn't seem to actually be used by
>  deb-systemd-helper anymore, but including File::Temp, which
>  deb-systemd-helper later started using. Text::ParseWords was
>  already in perl-base.)
>
> It would be very much appreciated if this issue could be fixed for jessie
> so that the base system growth would be reverted. Please let me know if
> you'd like a patch.  (The release team has already approved the relevant
> perl change for jessie.)
>
> Changes:
>  perl (5.20.1-3) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * Move File::Temp and its dependencies (File::Path, File::Basename,
>      and parent) to perl-base.
>      See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00216.html
>
> --
> Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org



-- 
Best regards,
Michael