Perl-base -is- essential

[Darren Stalder <darren@u.washington.edu>]

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Julian Gilbey, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>perl-5.005-base is required, but is not listed as essential.  In fact,
>I've just noticed that one of my packages which uses perl in the
>preinst should therefore have a Pre-Depends line.  (Any comments on
>this, anyone?)

I'll make a comment, as the Perl maintainer.

perl-5.005-base isn't essential.  But perl-base is.  And perl-base
depends on perl5-base which is provided by perl-5.004-base,
perl-5.005-base, and perl-5.6-base.  This way we don't have shifting
essential packages when we have a new version of Perl.  This was an
excellent idea from Raphael Hertzog.

Darren
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