Bug#803645: fixed in libclang-perl 0.09-3

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 05:52:36PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 17:20:31 +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 
> > >> Does this make sense? (Adding Alessandro as well as both upstream and
> > >> DD.)
> > > That's even better, indeed! Sylvestre can better comment on the approach, it
> > > looks sensible to me but I don't know if there is a better way.
> > If it builds with that, I am happy :)
> 
> Thanks guys, uploaded with these changes.
> 
> If Alessandro has better ideas or finds a way to add a dynamic
> version check upstream, we can always revisit this fix.

So, from the upstream POV, the main problem is that new clang releases often
break compatibility. This is usually caught by the test suite, but some stuff
might pass through and silently break applications. On the other hand there's
not a lot of stuff using libclang-perl so that's probably not much of a problem.
There's also probably some difference between the default version on Ubuntu,
Debian and other distros, so if someone tried to build with the wrong default
LLVM/Clang version then there's a good chance it will not work.

The other problem is that the default LLVM/Clang versions in Debian adapted
quite slowly to new upstream releases in the past, so if we (me, upstream)
wanted to switch to a newer version, then we'd have to wait for Debian (and
whatever other distro) to switch as well.

Overall I don't have a strong opinion on this, so if someone opens a pull
request on GitHub and manages to not break anything, I'll look into it (though
I won't have lots of time in the next few days/weeks). In the worst case it
will just get reverted in a future release (libclang-perl is really not that
much of an active project anyway).

Finally, to Lucas & co., I'm also open to adding co-maintainers upstream or
even just giving the project away since it seems that I've become the
bottleneck and I'm not really using the project myself. Since you are the ones
doing all the development lately I thought you might be interested. If you are,
just write me an email and we'll coordinate this (but keep in mind the above
about me not being much available in the short term).

Cheers
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