Bug#631308: libperl-dev: should depend on libc6-dev

[Niko Tyni]

Package: libperl-dev
Version: 5.12.3-7
Severity: minor

The only supported way of linking against libperl.so that I'm aware of
is to use ExtUtils::Embed::ldopts. This gives a list of other libraries
too:

 % perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts
 -Wl,-E  -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib/perl/5.12/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt

Linking against these other libraries isn't possible without libc6-dev
(or its equivalent on the deviating architectures) installed.

It therefore looks like libperl-dev should at least Recommend, probably
Depend, on something like "libc6-dev | libc-dev".

Obviously this is a no-op for Debian package builds as libc6-dev is
already in the build-essential set, hence the low severity.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org