Perl 5.16 and Relevance
Perl 5.16 and Relevance
Posted Sep 15, 2011 22:58 UTC (Thu) by BenHutchings (subscriber, #37955)In reply to: Perl 5.16 and Relevance by k8to
Parent article: Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond
Debian has been moving deliberately towards python from perl for their administrative tools.
There has been no such policy decision. Further, a subset of Perl (the perl-base package) is 'essential' (guaranteed to be installed) while no such subset of Python has that status. (Which I regret, as I would much prefer to use Python for complex maintainer scripts.)
Some utilities accompanying dpkg were written in Perl but have been rewritten in C so that 'Emdebian' installations can leave out perl-base as well.