Bug#562214: libdevel-cover-perl: Warnings about having been built against different Perl version

[Tim Retout]

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 13:19 -0800, Ryan Niebur wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:09:43PM -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk> wrote:
> > > So we need to tighten up the Depends to match the version of Perl that
> > > libdevel-cover-perl was compiled against.
> > I get these warnings too, and have always considered them more of an
> > annoyance than a bug. I have been thinking about how to deal with this
> > issue, but I have not come up with an elegant solution that would suit
> > our purpose. I'd love to hear about this from the rest of the group.
> > 
> 
> lets just binnmu them as we find them?

Yes to this.

But to spot these more easily in the future, we can add some magic to
debian/rules and debian/control to force the dependency.  They'll still
need a binNMU, but I suspect that some automated/manual mechanisms will
pick this up sooner if it causes an installability problem (hopefully
without having to involve pkg-perl at all).

It's only a trivial annoyance with 5.10.0 and 5.10.1, but with future
jumps it could break stuff, in the worst case.

-- 
Tim Retout <tim at retout.co.uk>