Bug#579457: debian-policy: finer granularity for perlapi-*
On 6 May 2010 23:26, Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> wrote:
> I was trying to cater for the degenerate case of $Config{debian_abi}=0
> (which breaks the above short-circuit form) so dependants wouldn't have
> to check for that.
Sure, but this is not an arbitrary string which may accidentally
contain "0". I think that we may safely presume that no future Perl
maintainer will choose that to set debian_abi to be zero.
> New try. I replaced "abiversion" with "abiname" to emphasize that it does
> not need to look like a version number, and applied your suggestion with
> s/is not set or empty/is empty or not set/
> to avoid a slight precedence ambiguity.
Looks good to me.
--bod
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