Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.

5.10 is in stable, which is good enough for me.

(And this dependency was added for very unclear reasons in the first place.)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index a880106a7e7cf2d3397e88491d2cf94143fca3a8..50f8fff70887bb9ec899feecfeae831236979bd8 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ debhelper (8.9.7) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
   * dh: Don't bother running dh_shlibdebs, dh_makeshelibs, or dh_strip
     for the binary target when all packages being acted on are indep.
   * debhelper no longer build-depends on man-db or file, to ease bootstrapping.
+  * Remove obsolete versioned dependency on perl-base.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:18:01 -0400
 

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 4e36ebf00e3133772a89b79d03afde28ee0f2b08..ac59c979237595c578067f7f3d6d63c450d35069 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Source: debhelper
 Section: devel
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
-Build-Depends: po4a (>= 0.24), perl-base (>= 5.10)
+Build-Depends: po4a (>= 0.24)
 Standards-Version: 3.9.2
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=debhelper/debhelper.git;a=summary
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debhelper/
 
 Package: debhelper
 Architecture: all
-Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, perl-base (>= 5.10), file (>= 3.23), dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0), html2text, binutils, po-debconf, man-db (>= 2.5.1-1)
+Depends: ${perl:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, file (>= 3.23), dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.0), html2text, binutils, po-debconf, man-db (>= 2.5.1-1)
 Suggests: dh-make
 Conflicts: dpkg-cross (<< 1.18), python-support (<< 0.5.3), python-central (<< 0.5.6)
 Description: helper programs for debian/rules