On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Holger Parplies <wbppc AT parplies DOT de> 
wrote:
> no, BackupPC is implemented in Perl, so no libc dependency there (actually,
> the wheezy package *does* introduce a libc6 dependency, ">= 2.0" seems to mean
> you can't run it on Debian versions prior to hamm :-); I'm not sure why the
> dependency is there).

Perhaps the same reason it exists in Fedora. There's a very small C
wrapper used. I believe this is used to prevent running perl as SUID.

Richard

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