Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version

[debian/debian-policy.git] / upgrading-checklist.sgml

diff --git a/upgrading-checklist.sgml b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
index 91b4e172a90d2547320a564bf7818316ab6b9e94..0d3ca569964d82b1a2b0b58e9c2a12efb42317b3 100644 (file)
--- a/upgrading-checklist.sgml
+++ b/upgrading-checklist.sgml
@@ -47,6 +47,13 @@ Release Jun 2010.
   <item><file>init.d</file> scripts are a possible exception from the
   normal requirement to use <code>set -e</code> in each shell script.
   </item>
+<tag>perl</tag>
+  <item><package>perl-base</package> now
+  provides <package>perlapi-<var>abiname</var></package> instead of a
+  package based solely on the Perl version.  Perl packages must now depend
+  on <package>perlapi-$Config{debian_abi}</package>, falling back
+  on <tt>$Config{version}</tt> if <tt>$Config{debian_abi}</tt> is not set.
+  </item>
 </taglist></p>
 
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