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

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 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.

True, there's a slippery slope there, but I really was proposing
maintaining exactly one (libuuid-perl) this way.

Anything else can be easily rebuilt after upgrading perl by
temporarily removing packages, even on a system without a build
chroot.  Removing the kernel, on the other hand, even temporarily, is
not a good idea.

Thanks, and hoping that clarifies,
Jonathan