Bug#720331: libnet-ldap-perl depends on libwww-perl. Why?

Florian Schlichting fsfs at debian.org
Tue Aug 20 18:52:20 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:23:32PM +0200, John Hughes wrote:
> Does libnet-ldap-perl realy need libwww-perl and all it's 20-odd dependancies?

When we (Debian Perl team) took over maintenance of libnet-ldap-perl in
2008, it already had the dependency on libwww-perl. However, the package
never had a build-dependency on libwww-perl until very recently, and as
far as I can see, modules from libwww-perl are referenced only in
conjunction with optional features (specifically, for use of the
LWP::Protocol::ldap, LWP::Protocol::ldaps, or LWP::Protocol::ldapi
modules).

So I think the dependency on libwww-perl is indeed bogus, and can be
lowered to Suggests.

Florian



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