Bug#774074: dh-make-perl: Recursive option does not check version of existing packages

[Andrew Beverley]

On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 10:18 +0000, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > That's fine. Is the correct way to do this by doing a "require", and
> > removing the "use"?
> 
> I think so. Something like
> 
>  if ( eval { require DPKG::Parse::Available } ) {
>   ...
>  }
>  else {
>     # perhaps some word of warning?
>  }

Okay, I've done that, please find attached updated patch.

> > >  Do you plan to package that in Debian?
> > 
> > Yes, that's fine, I can do that, I just need to spend a bit of time
> > reading up on how to package correctly. I'll update this ticket once
> > I've done that.
> 
> Cool! Then I guess we can make DPKG::Parse::Available a hard 
> dependency and give everyone a better experience.

As per the thread on debian-perl at lists.debian.org it will appear in the
repos soon (bug number currently missing).

However, given it's a recent addition, I've still done it as a
"require", and maybe we can move it to a hard dependency in due course.

Thanks,

Andy

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