Bug#682445: libuuid-perl: please rebuild against perl 5.16 in experimental

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 02:42:17PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I would like to test perl 5.16, but linux-base depends on libuuid-perl
> which depends on perlapi-5.14.2.
> 
> Now I can build libuuid-perl privately (and I have done exactly that),
> but others in this situation might benefit from a pre-built binary in
> experimental.  How about this patch?

I advise against doing this - the perl packages in experimental are
liable to change without notice and coordinating binary rebuilds of
packages against perlapi-5.16 into experimental is not where we want
to be. In general you'd end up filing hundreds of these wishlist bugs.

To test perl 5.16, please either rebuild dependencies locally or
use my unofficial rebuild repository (I'll take a look at updating that
before long - there are probably uninstallable packages there at the
moment - the freeze will hopefully help with this).

http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2012/06/msg00013.html

Thanks for helping with perl 5.16 testing!

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