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Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
* Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
* Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
+ * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
+ don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
-- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
-- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 31 May 2010 20:00:28 +0200
the binary and a basic set of modules.
</p>
<p>
the binary and a basic set of modules.
</p>
<p>
- As Perl is currently used by such things as
- <file>update-alternatives</file> and some package maintainer
- scripts, it must be priority <em>required</em> and marked as
- <em>essential</em>.
+ As Perl has been part of the essential set for some time and is
+ used without dependencies by such things as package maintainer
+ scripts, <package>perl-base</package> must be
+ priority <em>required</em> and marked as <em>essential</em>.
</p>
<p>
Note that the <package>perl-base</package> package is intended
only to provide for exceptional circumstances and the contents
</p>
<p>
Note that the <package>perl-base</package> package is intended
only to provide for exceptional circumstances and the contents
- may change. In general only packages which form part of the
- base system should declare a dependency on
- <package>perl-base</package> rather than
- <package>perl</package>.
+ may change. In general, only packages which form part of the
+ base system should use only the facilities
+ of <package>perl-base</package> rather than declaring a
+ dependency on <package>perl</package>.