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Perl modules are no longer required to build-depend on perl 5.6.0-16
or later and arch-independent modules are no longer required to depend
on perl or perl-base 5.6.0-16 or later. All versions of Debian
released for years have shipped with a newer version of Perl than that.
Wording from Cyril Brulebois. Bug#525190.
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #527871
Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
Closes: #527871
+ * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
+ Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
+ Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
+ Closes: #525190
* Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
* Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
* Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
* Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
(nominally just tmp)</p>
</footnote>
</p>
(nominally just tmp)</p>
</footnote>
</p>
- <p>
- A <tt>Build-Depends</tt> on <tt>perl (>= 5.6.0-16)</tt> is
- required.
- </p>
</sect>
<sect id="module_deps">
</sect>
<sect id="module_deps">
the minimum required version, or more simply the current
version.
</p>
the minimum required version, or more simply the current
version.
</p>
- <p>
- In the absence of an explicit requirement,
- architecture-independent modules must depend on a minimum
- <package>perl</package> or <package>perl-base</package>
- version of <tt>5.6.0-16</tt> due to the changes in
- <tt>@INC</tt> introduced by that version.
- </p>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="binary_modules">
</sect1>
<sect1 id="binary_modules">
* Source package Architecture fields may contain "all" in combination
with other architectures. Clarify when "all" and "any" may be used
in different versions of the field. [5.6.8]
* Source package Architecture fields may contain "all" in combination
with other architectures. Clarify when "all" and "any" may be used
in different versions of the field. [5.6.8]
+ * The requirement for Perl modules to have a versioned Depend and
+ Build-Depend on perl >= 5.6.0-16 has been removed. [perl]