Bug#757891: init-system-helpers: Please do not depend on perl

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: init-system-helpers
Version: 1.20
Severity: important

Hello,

perl is separate from perl-base so that in tight environement, Debian
can be installed with only perl-base. A base system installed by d-i,
notably, is supposed to only install perl-base, not perl.  It happens
however that d-i installs rsyslog, which depends on init-system-helpers,
which depends on perl.  Is the whole perl really needed?  If some
modules are needed, they could be moved to perl-base, to save having to
install the whole perl on all Debian base systems.

Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages init-system-helpers depends on:
ii  perl  5.18.2-7

init-system-helpers recommends no packages.

init-system-helpers suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Samuel
Be warned that typing \fBkillall \fIname\fP may not have the desired
effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.
(From the killall manual page)