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

[Brendan O'Dea]

On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:16:32PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>Final version with the nonzero thing removed. I'm looking for seconds.
>
>diff --git a/perl-policy.sgml b/perl-policy.sgml
>index 1d26df7..1ee5df5 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
>+        <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/&lt;tmp&gt;/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>

Seconded.

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