The following reply was made to PR pkg/36504; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/36504: devel/p5-Carp-Clan-5.8 needs DEPENDS for devel/p5-Test-Exception
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:16:51 +0200

 On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 11:00:01AM +0000, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
 > p5-Carp-Clan needs p5-Test-Exception for its test suite
 > (see Makefile.PL for Carp-Clan).
 
 We do not usually add dependencies for tests to DEPENDS.
 Does it need the dependency during runtime too?
  Thomas