Bug#551356: libpar-packer-perl: fails to extract Parl with Perl 5.10.1

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:18:05 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:

> >> $ pp -o haha -e "print 'hello'"
> >> Perl lib version (5.10.1) doesn't match executable version (v5.10.0) at
> >> /usr/lib/perl/5.10/Config.pm line 50.
> > I thought about adding perlapi-$Config{version} to Depends manually [0],
> > but that wouldn't buy us anything in this case: The current version
> > of libpar-packer-perl would have perlapi-5.10.0 -- and perl-base
> > 5.10.1 provides perlapi-5.10.1 and perlapi-5.10.0, and we would be
> > back at square one.
> Honestly I am not acquainted with PAR, just tried to run it first time. Do you
> mean PAR requires perl version exact that was used for building?..

That was my interpretation of the error above, which might be wrong
...
 
> > Do we need to add libperl5.10 (<< $current+1~) or something like
> > that? Or is there a better way to ensure that the runtime
> > dependencies match the perl version at build time?
> ..seems so.
> I don't know better solutions so far. Fortunately even patch Perl updates are
> quite rare AFAIK, so this should work, and if set up automatically in rules,
> should require only binNMU at the every next Perl update.

Ok, let's wait a bit if someone else comes up with a better idea
before I "steal" the versioning magic from libalien-wxwidgets-perl :) 

Cheers,
gregor 
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