r57540 - /trunk/dh-make-perl/TODO

[dmn at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: dmn
Date: Wed May  5 19:46:48 2010
New Revision: 57540

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/?sc=1&rev=57540
Log:
TODO: clarifications about mod+ver -> deb_ver matching

Modified:
    trunk/dh-make-perl/TODO

Modified: trunk/dh-make-perl/TODO
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/dh-make-perl/TODO?rev=57540&op=diff
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--- trunk/dh-make-perl/TODO (original)
+++ trunk/dh-make-perl/TODO Wed May  5 19:46:48 2010
@@ -11,5 +11,13 @@
   4.23 is needed. while not common, version discrepacy is very annoying.
   TODO: investigate usage of UDD. (1) can the info "package version module
   module-version" be imported and (2) would it be possible to query that from
-  the web somehow. A separate question is how useful it would be for
-  dh-make-perl to query the web about this info.
+  the web somehow, i.e. "which package+version contain at least
+  module+module-version?".
+  Two problems:
+  (a) dh-make-perl querying the web about each dependency seems not quite
+      right. Requests should be batched. One request per dh-make-perl run
+      is better. Is it good enough?
+  (b) will all this be enough? Given that perl module versions compare
+      differently to debian package versions, the result can still be wrong.
+      The same question holds with core packages, but perhaps they behave beter
+      wrt (not) changing versioning scheme.