[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#580394: unnecessary dependancy on perl

[Phil Vandry]

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)