rakudo permanent tracker and transition

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 05-02-2022 15:54, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 February 2022 09:16:54 CET Paul Gevers wrote:
>> I'm slightly surprised that perl6-readline isn't picked up by the
>> tracker. We'll need to check why that is.
> 
> I've a possible explanation.

Thanks for thinking along.

> perl6-readline depends field is:
> 
>   Depends: libreadline8, raku-api-2021.09
> 
> rakudo tracker is set with:
> 
>   Affected: .depends ~ /^raku-api-/
> 
> This fails if the regexp is applied to the *whole* Depends field value because
> the regexp is anchored to the beginning of the string.

True, that's why I was pretty sure that ben only considers individual 
entries. But I just checked the ben documentation [1] and believe you 
are right. Particularly this:
"""
Packages fields may contain a list of values comma-separated. Ben splits 
the list before looking with "…​" for a match.
"""
which suggest that doesn't apply to regular expressions and I see loads 
of (^|\s) in other ben files.

Paul

[1] https://debian.pages.debian.net/ben/#_query_language
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