[Pkg-parrot-devel] Bug#634970: parrot: Parrot should declare dependency on perlapi virtual package

[Dominique Dumont]

Package: parrot
Version: 3.3.0-1
Severity: important


Hello

Currently, parrot on i386 trigger FTBS (#634105) for rakudo.

Parrot uses Storable to generate some interface which is used during
rakudo's build.

Parrot for i386 was compiled with perl5.10, hence Storable's data is
compatible only with perl5.10.

Now that perl 5.12 is standard on sid, rakudo is built with perl 5.12
and thus fails to uses parrot's files.

For more details, see the following thread:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-rakudo-devel/2011-May/000016.html

The FTBS on rakudo can be solved by a binNMU on parrot/i386.

But the next Perl transition will trigger the same problem unless
parrot declares a dependency on perl api.

All the best

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages parrot depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.13-10          Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libreadline6            6.2-2            GNU readline and history libraries
ii  parrot-minimal          3.3.0-1          minimal install of the Parrot VM
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

parrot recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parrot suggests:
ii  parrot-doc                    3.3.0-1    Parrot documentation

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