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Re: perlapi and 5.8 and 5.10



On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:44:22PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:48:50PM +0000, Bob Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> >      I guess I would like to know whether I have done something wrong, and if
> >      so, what. I find it strange that I should have to rebuild a package anew
> >      for 5.10, unless, of course, there was an incompatible API change between
> >      5.8 and 5.10

Hi Niko

> You didn't do anything wrong.  There was an incompatible change in the
> XS module interface, though I think it should be called ABI and not API.

Agreed!

> About 300 packages were rebuilt for the Debian 5.8->5.10 transition
> back in May.

Thanks for the information.

> Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org

Bob


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