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Package: libdpkg-perl
Version: 1.23.2
Control: block 1123583 by -1
Hi. While working with sid, I saw this new warning:
using Dpkg::Version->is_native() has been made incoherent
and confusing on some dpkg vendors; it is deprecated as not
having portable semantics anymore at /usr/bin/[PROGRAM] line [LINE].
I think this is part of the changes prompted by #737634 / #1007717.
As I understand it, a Dpkg::Version object represents a Debian version
number. I don't think the concept of native, vs non-native, *version
numbers*, is affected at all by the TC decision in #1007717. It no
longer corresponds identically to the source package format, but
Dpkg::Version doesn't involve anything to do with source package
formats.
It's a shame that policy has not yet been updated (#1107137) but I
think it's clear that we are going to retain the terminology "native
version number".
So I think the `is_native` method on Version probably ought to be
retained rather than deprecated.
If there is a need to distinguish, here, native *version numbers* from
native *source formats*, then perhaps the method might be renamed to
`is_native_version_number` or something. But that seems otioise given
that it is a method *on a version number object*. And in that case we
would presumably have some kind of transition plan to the new method
name.
In practical terms for callers: authors using this API have presumably
been calling this method, and other methods in Dpkg/Version.pm, in
order to avoid reimplementing Debian's version numbering algoriths,
and be spared the need to adapt their code if Debian's package
versioning scheme changes.
So I think people using this function are doing the right thing, and
rewarding them by deprecating it can't be right. No doubt many will
conclude that they should have just looked for a hyphen in the string.
Especially since the version of dpkg in sid doesn't seem to offer any
alternative. Do you really intend for users of this method to
write !~ m/-/ instead ?
Thanks for your consideration.
Ian.
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Source: dpkg
Source-Version: 1.23.3
Done: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:18:49 +0100
Source: dpkg
Architecture: source
Version: 1.23.3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>
Closes: 1100187 1123630
Changes:
dpkg (1.23.3) unstable; urgency=medium
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[ Guillem Jover ]
* Perl modules:
- Dpkg::Vendor::Debian: Mask PIE on m68k, sh4 and x32.
Thanks to Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>. Closes: #1100187
- Dpkg::Version: Add new has_epoch() and has_revision() methods.
Closes: #1123630
- Dpkg::Source::Package::V1: Make debian/rules executable on extract if
present. Closes: #1123630
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