[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#736245: /usr/sbin/ntp-wait: insufficient dependency on perl

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2
Severity: important
File: /usr/sbin/ntp-wait

Hi,

ntp Suggests: perl, but ships /usr/sbin/ntp-wait which requires it.

This causes problems in unrelated packages, particularly during upgrades,
which quite reasonably call ntp-wait in postinst and Depend on ntp.
For example dovecot:

Starting IMAP/POP3 mail server: dovecotCan't locate Getopt/Std.pm in @INC
(@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1
/usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5
/usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .)
at /usr/sbin/ntp-wait line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/ntp-wait line 5.

Please Depends: perl, and backport this to stable via proposed-updates.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.3
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser      3.113+nmu3
ii  dpkg         1.16.12
ii  libc6        2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcap2      1:2.22-1.2
ii  libedit2     2.11-20080614-5
ii  libopts25    1:5.12-0.1
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1e-2+deb7u1
ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii  netbase      5.0

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl  5.14.2-21+deb7u1

Versions of packages ntp suggests:
pn  ntp-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information