build dependencies for jed

Rafael Laboissiere Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:35:34 +0200


* Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> [2005-06-23 18:51]:

> We should only depend on perl-base which includes the perl command not on
> perl.
> 
> Does anyone know, where this verions come from? Can we remove it. I think
> it is superfluous to postulate a version 5.0 when the default version is
> 5.8.

I agree that the current build-dependency:

    perl (>= 5.004.05-1.1), perl-base (>= 5.004.05-1.1)
    
is redundant and can be simplified to the unversioned one:

    perl-base 
    
as you propose.

> What about libslang2? The official release of slang2 is >= 2. So we don't
> need to force it to be > 1.99.

Right.

-- 
Rafael