Re: PATCH: Hurd FTBFS with perl 5.22

[William ML Leslie]

On 5 January 2016 at 16:56, Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> wrote:
> BTW: Why does Hurd contain such crappy dependencies such as perl. Is this part
> of upstream or Debian specific? The Debian package does not have it:
> apt-cache showsrc hurd | grep Build-Depends | grep -i perl
> <empty>
> Is there more perl code in upstream Hurd? If not, how about rewrite this code
> snippet in C and "remove a should be added" a language dependency!
>

It's used by a ported linux driver as part of libdde, as the path of
the patch indicates.

-- 
William Leslie

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