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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by rcxdude on Saturday November 01, 2025 @03:54PM (#45784782)
A substantial fraction of apt is written in perl. It's actually still pretty core to debian, even if applications are using it less.
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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by julian-klode on Saturday November 01, 2025 @04:53PM (#45785244)
There is no Perl code in APT itself, nor in dpkg on the installing side; Perl is used by dpkg-dev, i.e. when building packages.
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Re:Hard Rust requirements from May onward for all Debian ports by rcxdude on Saturday November 01, 2025 @06:02PM (#45785824)
Ah, my apologies. I must admit I am not entirely clear on where the boundaries are between the different tools and other elements of the debian packaging process.
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