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

From: "Mark E. Perkins" <perkinsm@bway.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/36504: devel/p5-Carp-Clan-5.8 needs DEPENDS for devel/p5-Test-Exception
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:24:54 -0400

 On 2007/06/19 19:20, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > 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
 >  
 No, it does not.  But there are other p5- packages that have DEPENDS on things
 like p5-Test-Simple (which is only used for the test suite of the package in
 question), which is why it seemed to me that this is a missing dependency.
 
 As a pkgsrc policy issue, I think I can see your point.  OTOH, from a p5- pkg
 integrity point of view, running the test suite is an essential (for me) step
 before installing the package and I like having all the dependencies for
 passing the tests already to be installed.
 
 It's your call.
 
 Cheers,
 Mark