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

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:00:04 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> Anyway, I'm not thrilled about dropping perlapi-5.10.0 and requiring 270
> or so binNMUs just because Devel::Cover thinks it might have a problem
> with a newer Perl upstream version.

It's not the only package, I remember playing with substvars in one
or two other packages before.
But I'm also a bit hesitant about _this_ drastic solution.
 
> I suppose extending dh_perl a bit could give a scalable way to require
> binNMUs for selected packages when the Perl upstream version changes.
> Just a new flag to substitute ${perl:Depends} with something like
>  perl (>= 5.10.1-8), perl (<< 5.10.2~)
> would do AFAICS.

That would indeed be nice, and IIRC this idea already came up in the
discussion about the last issue (probably on IRC).

I guess someone[tm] should try to hack up something :)

Cheers,
gregor 
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