Re: PATCH: Hurd FTBFS with perl 5.22

[Guillem Jover]

On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 06:56:37 +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> BTW: Why does Hurd contain such crappy dependencies such as perl.

This comment seems unnecessarily abrasive and out of place…

> 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>

That's because that would be wrong on two accounts:

,---
$ apt-cache show perl-base|grep Essential
Essential: yes
$ apt-cache show perl|grep Essential
Build-Essential: yes
`---

> 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!

That would be pointless, as per above. Not to mention that the
dpkg-dev tools are all in perl, same as debhelper, and there's no
intention to rewrite them.

Regards,
Guillem