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

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:37:51 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > > 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
> There's a static perl 5.10.0 inside both /usr/bin/parl and
> /usr/share/perl5/PAR/StrippedPARL/Static.pm, and it won't work
> with Config.pm from 5.10.1.

Thanks for the confirmation.
 
> > > > Do we need to add libperl5.10 (<< $current+1~) or something like
> > > > that? 
> 
> It's clearly necessary ATM but I'm not quite sure if that's intentional
> or a bug.  myldr/Makefile.PL builds parl with -B, which is supposed
> to embed core modules.
> 
> I think it's an OK solution at least for the moment as long as it's
> made binNMU safe.

Ok, I've now come up with the change below, which leads to:
Depends: perl (>= 5.10.1), [..] libperl5.10 (>= 5.10.1), perl (<< 5.10.2~), [..]

#v+

Index: debian/control
===================================================================
--- debian/control      (revision 46498)
+++ debian/control      (working copy)
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 Package: libpar-packer-perl
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends},
+ perl (>= ${perl:current}), perl (<< ${perl:next}),
  libarchive-zip-perl (>= 1),
  libgetopt-argvfile-perl (>= 1.07),
  libmodule-scandeps-perl (>= 0.81),
Index: debian/rules
===================================================================
--- debian/rules        (revision 46498)
+++ debian/rules        (working copy)
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/make -f
 
+PERLVER   := $(shell perl -e 'printf "%vd\n", $$^V')
+VMAJOR    := $(shell echo $(PERLVER) | cut -f 1 -d .)
+VMINOR    := $(shell echo $(PERLVER) | cut -f 2 -d .)
+VPATCH    := $(shell echo $(PERLVER) | cut -f 3 -d .)
+NEXTPATCH := $(shell expr $(VPATCH) + 1 2>/dev/null)
+
 %:
        dh --with quilt $@
 
@@ -20,3 +26,8 @@
        dh_auto_install
        prename s/\.pl/-archive/ \
                $(TMP)/usr/bin/par.pl $(TMP)/usr/share/man/man1/par.pl.1p
+
+override_dh_gencontrol:
+       dh_gencontrol -- \
+               -Vperl:current="$(VMAJOR).$(VMINOR).$(VPATCH)" \
+               -Vperl:next="$(VMAJOR).$(VMINOR).$(NEXTPATCH)~"

#v-
 
Does this look sane?


Cheers,
gregor
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