Bug#527917: please break circular dependency

[Brendan O'Dea]

For reference, an install/remove of perl on current unstable:

# apt-get install perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  make perl-modules
Suggested packages:
  make-doc perl-doc libterm-readline-gnu-perl libterm-readline-perl-perl
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  make perl perl-modules
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8106kB of archives.
After this operation, 29.6MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main perl-modules 5.10.0-22 [3198kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main perl 5.10.0-22 [4526kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable/main make 3.81-5 [382kB]
Fetched 8106kB in 0s (9283kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package perl-modules.
(Reading database ... 15633 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking perl-modules (from .../perl-modules_5.10.0-22_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package perl.
Unpacking perl (from .../perl_5.10.0-22_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package make.
Unpacking make (from .../archives/make_3.81-5_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up make (3.81-5) ...
Setting up perl-modules (5.10.0-22) ...
Setting up perl (5.10.0-22) ...
# apt-get remove perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  make
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  perl perl-modules
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 28.7MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 16873 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing perl ...
Removing perl-modules ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
# exit