Bug#579457: debian-policy: finer granularity for perlapi-*

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org> writes:

> Final version with the nonzero thing removed. I'm looking for seconds.

> diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
> index 1d26df7..1ee5df5 100644
> --- a/perl-policy.sgml
> +++ b/perl-policy.sgml
> @@ -89,8 +89,11 @@
>  	</p>
>  	<p>
>  	  The <package>perl-base</package> package must provide
> -	  <package>perlapi-<var>version</var></package> for all released
> -	  versions it is compatible with.
> +	  <package>perlapi-<var>abiname</var></package> for all released
> +	  package versions it is compatible with. The choice of
> +	  <var>abiname</var> is arbitrary, but if it differs from
> +	  <tt>$Config{version}</tt>, it must be specified in
> +	  <tt>$Config{debian_abi}</tt>.
>  	</p>
>        </sect>
>  
> @@ -348,8 +351,9 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/&lt;tmp&gt;/usr
>  	    a minimum version of the <package>perl</package> package
>  	    used to build the module, and must additionally depend on
>  	    the expansion of
> -	    <package>perlapi-$Config{version}</package> using
> -	    the <tt>Config</tt> module.
> +	    <package>perlapi-$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.
>  	  </p>
>  	</sect1>

Seconded.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>