[dpkg] 82/200: debian: Hardcode a perl:any dependency in the libdpkg-perl package

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commit cff8e24ca76451a4a52cea6b05e8a76dcd1f5ecf
Author: Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org>
Date:   Mon Dec 19 01:38:17 2016 +0100

    debian: Hardcode a perl:any dependency in the libdpkg-perl package
    
    The perl policy states that lib*-perl packages have to depend on the
    perl package. Depending on a perl-modules packages is currently not
    possible. And dh_perl will not emit a perl:any dependency for us, so
    the current best option is to just hardcode it ourselves.
    
    Reported-by: Sven Joachim <svenjoac at gmx.de>
---
 debian/changelog | 5 +++--
 debian/control   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2168b33..6ee9b0e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ dpkg (1.18.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     - Clarify that dpkg-buildpackage does not run «dpkg-source --before-build»
       when using the -T option. Closes: #649531
   * Packaging:
-    - Do not let dh_perl insert a dependency for libdpkg-perl, because tying
-      the modules to a specific interpreter is wrong.
+    - Do not let dh_perl insert a dependency for libdpkg-perl, because it
+      emits perl instead of perl:any. Instead hardcode a perl:any dependency
+      to comply with the perl policy and make the Multi-Arch hinter happy.
 
   [ Updated scripts translations ]
   * German (Helge Kreutzmann).
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index beff9b8..bc53c66 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ Architecture: all
 Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends:
  ${misc:Depends},
+ perl:any,
 # Needed for arch tuples.
  dpkg (>= 1.18.11),
 Recommends:

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