Package: perl Version: 5.28.1-6 Severity: wishlist Filing #931730, it occurred to me that we could flag perlapi-* related build dependency cycles automatically by having an autopkgtest check in src:perl that looks for them.
This would block any such build dependency cycles from reaching testing and highlight the issue for maintainers. While we noticed the build cycle early this time because we've been running Perl 5.30 test rebuilds continuously, with other timing it might take up to a year before anybody notices. The code we currently use for calculating the rebuild order is at https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/scripts/tree/master/perl-transitions and could probably be simplified to just alert on build dependency cycles. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
