Bug#562214: libdevel-cover-perl: Warnings about having been built against different Perl version

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| gregor herrmann, Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 02:56:52PM +0100 |=-
> On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:00:04 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > I suppose extending dh_perl a bit could give a scalable way to 
> > require
> > binNMUs for selected packages when the Perl upstream version changes.
> > Just a new flag to substitute ${perl:Depends} with something like
> >  perl (>= 5.10.1-8), perl (<< 5.10.2~)
> > would do AFAICS.
> 
> That would indeed be nice, and IIRC this idea already came up in the
> discussion about the last issue (probably on IRC).
> 
> I guess someone[tm] should try to hack up something :)

How about providing a new substvar? Something like ${perl:Same}  or 
${perl:Built} that would expand to a proper >=, << dependency like the 
one above.

A new substvar would avoid adding command-line switches to dh_perl, 
which may be hidden in a 'dh' call.
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