Re: Bug#750017: perl-policy: All packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-* dependency

[Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>]

-=| Niko Tyni, 31.05.2014 20:33:48 +0300 |=-

> >From 1ff242b0a7eb5ba39ff18d51a2b2a92596f8b2ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:10:22 +0300
> Subject: [PATCH] All packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
>  dependency
> 
> Having $Config{vendorarch} change between Perl major versions (for
> multiarch or other reasons) implies that packages using it need a strict
> dependency on those versions of perl-base that have a compatible search
> path (@INC).
> 
> The vast majority of these packages are binary ("XS") modules, where we
> already require a dependency on the virtual package perlapi-*, provided
> by perl-base. The name of this virtual package will change when the
> interface between the Perl interpreter and the modules changes.
> 
> If we consider @INC part of that interface, we can use the existing
> mechanism also for the few nonbinary modules using $Config{vendorarch}.
> This is a new requirement that currently affects six packages in
> the archive.
> ---
>  perl-policy.sgml | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
> index c23f7c3..e83c8c5 100644
> --- a/perl-policy.sgml
> +++ b/perl-policy.sgml
> @@ -388,13 +388,14 @@ $(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;
>  	</sect1>
>  
>  	<sect1 id="binary_modules">
> -	  <heading>Binary Modules</heading>
> +	  <heading>Binary and Other Architecture Dependent Modules</heading>
>  	  <p>
>  	    Binary modules must specify a dependency on either
>  	    <package>perl</package> or <package>perl-base</package> with
>  	    a minimum version of the <package>perl</package> package
> -	    used to build the module, and must additionally depend on
> -	    the expansion of
> +	    used to build the module. Additionally, all modules installed
> +	    into <tt>$Config{vendorarch}</tt> (binary or otherwise
> +	    architecture dependent) must depend on the expansion of
>  	    <package>perlapi-$Config{debian_abi}</package> using
>  	    the <tt>Config</tt> module. If <tt>$Config{debian_abi}</tt>
>  	    is empty or not set, <tt>$Config{version}</tt> must be used.
> -- 
> 2.0.0.rc4

Seconded.

Thanks Niko!

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