[Build-common-hackers] Bug#714542: Bug#714542: cdbs: Please use "--" long option prefixes for Perl's Module::Build build system

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Mon Jul 1 09:35:30 UTC 2013


Quoting Leon Timmermans (2013-06-30 21:49:40)
> > As we take pride in CDBS being backporting-friendly, it would be 
> > nice if you could also test in a Squeeze (i.e. oldstable) 
> > environment that the change doesn't break things that far back 
> > either.
> 
> The 'new style' arguments were introduced in Module::Build 0.17, 
> released in March 2003. Backwards compatibility really shouldn't be an 
> issue.

Thanks for this reassuring data point!

 - Jonas

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