clone 465184 -1
tag 465184 pending
retitle -1 Please add a $VERSION variable to the Perl modules.
reassign -1 dpkg-dev
severity -1 wishlist
thanks
Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This package is using some Dpkg perl modules, but those are private
> to dpkg-dev.
Well, I found the modules in /usr/share/perl5, so I assumed I could
just use them. (Gee, Dpkg::Cdata is even documented!)
> We expect to make them a public API in the future but that's not the
> case yet. So we don't guarantee any kind of stability in the API.
That's okay, I'll consider any breakage that may occur a bug in my
package until the API stabilizes. And TBH, I don't really think that
the interface of
$obj = Dpkg::Cdata::parsecdata($input, $file, %options)
will change in incompatible ways.
I suggest putting a $VERSION variable in each of the Dpkg::* packages,
as suggested in perlmodlib(1).
That way, we'd have a chance of coping with changing APIs.
-Hilko
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