On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:39:42AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On 6 May 2010 04:57, Niko Tyni <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm thinking the dependants could use something like
> > "perlapi-" . ($Config{debian_abi} || $Config{version})
> Rather than "evaluates to false", I'd suggest wording it:
>
> If <tt>$Config{debian_abi}</tt> is not set or empty,
> <tt>$Config{version}</tt> must be used.
>
> as this more clearly indicates the intent.
I was trying to cater for the degenerate case of $Config{debian_abi}=0
(which breaks the above short-circuit form) so dependants wouldn't have
to check for that.
If we need that at all, I suppose it should go in the perl-base requirements.
New try. I replaced "abiversion" with "abiname" to emphasize that it does
not need to look like a version number, and applied your suggestion with
s/is not set or empty/is empty or not set/
to avoid a slight precedence ambiguity.
diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
index 1d26df7..a71dd21 100644
--- a/perl-policy.sgml
+++ b/perl-policy.sgml
@@ -89,8 +89,11 @@
</p>
<p>
The <package>perl-base</package> package must provide
- <package>perlapi-<var>version</var></package> for all released
- versions it is compatible with.
+ <package>perlapi-<var>abiname</var></package> for all released
+ package versions it is compatible with. The choice of
+ a nonzero <var>abiname</var> is arbitrary, but if it differs from
+ <tt>$Config{version}</tt>, it must be specified in
+ <tt>$Config{debian_abi}</tt>.
</p>
</sect>
@@ -348,8 +351,9 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/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>
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