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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 06:11:48AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough - I hadn't thought of that particular special case.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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