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

[Russ Allbery]

Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> writes:

> From: Niko Tyni <nt...@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.

Seconded.  Thanks, Niko!

> 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.

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


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