Re: Request for help from binary packaging people.

Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:

For Debian, we recommend lib*-*-perl packages.  Do we need to recommend
perl itself as well, or is it the case that things that are covered with
the automatic dependency chain need not be listed? 

No, yes.  ;-)

What happens if the lib*-perl packages are not installed? If some scripts
break, that's a Bad Thing, and would require those packages to be moved to
Depends:.

Earlier I said that
the Debian side is reasonably accurate to the best of my knowledge, but I
would appreciate it if somebody ran lintian on it.

Will do.

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