[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#580394: unnecessary dependancy on perl
Phil Vandry
vandry at TZoNE.ORG
Wed May 5 18:34:21 UTC 2010
Package: libnss-mdns
Severity: wishlist
On Debian installations on very small computers, perl may not be
installed, only perl-base. On such systems, libnss-mdns cannot be
installed because it depends on perl and perl is too big to install.
libnss-mdns appears to depend on perl only because it is used in
the postinst and postrm scripts. It doesn't use any fancy Perl
modules and could just as well depend on perl-base instead. Would
it be OK to change the dependancy from perl to perl-base?
I have already tested that this works. By editing the control
file and rebuilding the package, libnss-mdns is installed and
working fine on a Debian system without the 'perl' package.
-Phil
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libnss-mdns depends on:
pn avahi-daemon <none> (no description available)
ii base-files 5lenny5 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
libnss-mdns recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libnss-mdns suggests:
pn avahi-autoipd | zeroconf <none> (no description available)
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