Bug#596734: installation of perl scripts pulls in make

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:37:08PM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.10.0-21
 
> I just noticed that doing upgrades on desktop systems from lenny to squeeze, 
> perl pulls in make. This can't be expected behaviour.
> It was requested in 293908, but I_don't agree with the submitter that this is 
> what should be done.
> 
> Note that Recommends is installed by default, so this change is effectively 
> installing make on all systems.
 
> I would like to see this reverted before release, or downgraded to a Suggests.

I don't see this as a huge problem, given that make is just
Installed-Size: 1220 with no further dependencies.  But yeah, downgrading
it to Suggests: and making CPAN::Shell fail more gracefully would probably
be a better solution for #293908.

I think it's too late to do anything else for squeeze than downgrade it to
Suggests and reopen #293908, and it's possible that even this is too much for
the release team. I'll take this up if/when we need another upload for squeeze.
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