Re: Proposal: drop libcrypt-dev dependency from libc6-dev

gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:59:04 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.perl,gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
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On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:37:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:

>I sorted those logs and
>you may now find them at
>https://people.debian.org/~helmutg/glibc-no-crypt/logs/.

Thanks.

>Beyond that, 11
>packages build a perl extension module for testing purposes and
>therefore need "Build-Depends: perl-xs-dev <!nocheck>".

I learned something new :)

>For the perl-related changes we
>might skip filing the bugs and consider mass-committing the changes for
>a later upload.

At first glance that sounds reasonable (and save us from the work of 
correlating and closing bugs in packages). At second glance, i.e. 
after looking at 
<https://people.debian.org/~helmutg/glibc-no-crypt/logs/needs-perl-xs-dev/>, 
I note that many packages there don't match the 'lib.+-perl' pattern, 
i.e. are not maintained by the Debian Perl Team, and from the 
remaining ones, (without checking them) I also don't recognize quite 
a few package names. ¹

I think the "mass" for "mass-commiting" would not be high enough to 
rely on this mechanism, so I guess including them in the MBF makes 
more sense.

Cheers,
gregor

¹ I'm not surprised that this problem mainly affects 
non-team-maintained packages, as we've been using perl-xs-dev since 
quite some time …

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