[debhelper-devel] Bug#751684: dh_perl: Add perlapi-* dependency on packages installed to $Config{vendorarch}

[gregor herrmann]

On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:47:44 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> There's a pending Perl policy change discussed in #750017 that requires
> the handful of packages in the archive that install nonbinary Perl modules
> into /usr/lib/perl5 (or, more generally, $Config{vendorarch} to add a
> perlapi-* dependency. The attached mostly untested patch implements this
> in dh_perl.
> 
> I'll try to find some time to test it myself, but as that could be done by
> others too, I wanted to file this sooner rather than later. Not adding
> the 'patch' tag quite yet, though.

I've tested the patch now, and it didn't work for the first package I
tried (libalien-wxwidgets-perl):

The regexp does not match, $File::Find::dir contains subdirectories
(debian/libalien-wxwidgets-perl/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20/Alien
etc.)

If I change
                        if $File::Find::dir =~ /\Q$vendorarch\E$/; 
to
                        if $File::Find::dir =~ /\Q$vendorarch\E/; 
it looks better, and $deps = 10, and we get perlapi-5.20.0-exp1 in Depends.


I've now tested this updated patch with
- 3 of the "special" packages mentioned in #750017
  (after removing the manual perlapi-* stuff from d/rules)
- 3 random arch:any packages, and
- 3 random arch:all packages

and haven't seen anything unexpected.


Cheers,
gregor

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