[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#693224: dovecot-core - Needs Getopt/Std.pm

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Julien Cristau wrote:

> The ntp package provides more than just that one script.  The rest
> doesn't need perl, so I would argue it's ok for ntp to not depend on
> perl, and the bug here is in dovecot.
>

Well it is moot then because dovecot no longer uses ntp-wait.  But I still
don't understand why if even a  small portion of the ntp packages
functionality will fail to work without an additional package, it should
not depend on or atleast recommend that package.


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Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at debian.org>