Perl Packaging
@@ -75,8 +89,11 @@
The perl-base package must provide
- perlapi-version for all released
- versions it is compatible with.
+ perlapi-abiname for all released
+ package versions it is compatible with. The choice of
+ abiname is arbitrary, but if it differs from
+ $Config{version}, it must be specified in
+ $Config{debian_abi}.
@@ -89,18 +106,18 @@
the binary and a basic set of modules.
- As Perl is currently used by such things as
- update-alternatives and some package maintainer
- scripts, it must be priority required and marked as
- essential.
+ As Perl has been part of the essential set for some time and is
+ used without dependencies by such things as package maintainer
+ scripts, perl-base must be
+ priority required and marked as essential.
Note that the perl-base package is intended
only to provide for exceptional circumstances and the contents
- may change. In general only packages which form part of the
- base system should declare a dependency on
- perl-base rather than
- perl.
+ may change. In general, only packages which form part of the
+ base system should use only the facilities
+ of perl-base rather than declaring a
+ dependency on perl.
@@ -299,12 +316,11 @@ $(MAKE) OPTIMIZE="-O2 -g -Wall"
and this one to install the results into the temporary tree:
-$(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr
-
-
-
- A Build-Depends on perl (>= 5.6.0-16) is
- required.
+$(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/<tmp>/usr
+
+ Replace <tmp> with the appropriate directory
+ (nominally just tmp)
+
@@ -325,13 +341,6 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr
the minimum required version, or more simply the current
version.
-
- In the absence of an explicit requirement,
- architecture-independent modules must depend on a minimum
- perl or perl-base
- version of 5.6.0-16 due to the changes in
- @INC introduced by that version.
-
@@ -342,7 +351,9 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr
a minimum version of the perl package
used to build the module, and must additionally depend on
the expansion of
- perlapi-$Config{version}.
+ perlapi-$Config{debian_abi} using
+ the Config module. If $Config{debian_abi}
+ is empty or not set, $Config{version} must be used.
@@ -352,15 +363,22 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr
Rather than hard-coding the dependencies into the control
file, using a substitution such as ${perl:Depends}
is suggested. This allows the dependencies to be determined
- as build time and written to the substvars file
- in the form perl:Depends=deps.
+ at build time and written to the substvars file
+ in the form
+ perl:Depends=deps.
+ Please note that dependencies caused by versioned
+ uses and on separately packaged modules are not included
+ in this variable and must be explicitly included.
+
- Packages built with debhelper may use to generate this substitution
- automatically. This additionally requires a versioned
- Build-Depends (or Build-Depends-Indep)
- on debhelper (>= 3.0.18).
+ Packages built with debhelper may use
+
+ to generate this
+ substitution automatically. This additionally requires a
+ versioned Build-Depends (or
+ Build-Depends-Indep) on debhelper (>=
+ 3.0.18).
@@ -394,7 +412,7 @@ $(MAKE) install PREFIX=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/usr
As with modules, packages using debhelper may use
- to automatically generate
+ to automatically generate
dependences (see [).
]
@@ -463,3 +481,6 @@ perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts
+
+
+