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

2010-05-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
On 6 May 2010 04:57, Niko Tyni wrote: > Update: this formulation avoids an unnecessary patch to the perl package > until the ABI is actually changed. It also allows debhelper and the > few other affected packages to easily stay compatible with older perl > package versions. > > I'm thinking the de

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

2010-05-05 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:37:18PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > >For convenience, the perl package could include the suffix and/or the > > >whole string in something like $Config{debian_abi}. In that case we > > >should probably mandate that packages need to use it rather than derive > > >the strin

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

2010-05-05 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 08:23:47AM +, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > >I would like to include these settings in the virtual package name so > >that it would be possible to make incompatible ABI changes during the > >life time of a single Perl upstream version and have a clean transition > >path. > It

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

2010-05-05 Thread Brendan O'Dea
>I would like to include these settings in the virtual package name so >that it would be possible to make incompatible ABI changes during the >life time of a single Perl upstream version and have a clean transition >path. > >As for the implementation, the name of the virtual package could be >deriv