Hi,
Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes:
> I've been postponing dealing with this bug, hoping that someone in the
> Debian Perl Group would spontaneously provide a better interface for this
> than the current one. The perl-dbdabi-* virtual package seems sensible
> enough, but I'm not happy about including external makefiles in my
> debian/rules. Could you please provide a dh_* command for this that adds
> the value to the existing ${misc:Depends} variable?
A dh_perl_dbi command and a perl_dbi addon for dh have been included in
libdbi-perl_1.612-1. They add the required dependency to
${perl:Depends} (which is already used by dh_perl).
See also /usr/share/doc/libdbi-perl/README.Debian.
> Also, why does libdbd-sybase-perl need to depend on *both* libdbi-perl *an*
> perl-dbdabi-*, given that the latter is provided by the former? Depending
> on libdbi-perl looks quite redundant to me.
I took that from Perl XS modules without too much thinking: dh_perl
usually adds a dependency on both perlapi-* and perl. But after
thinking some more, I agree with you: The case of XS modules is
different. There perlapi-* is provided by perl-base, but many modules
require functionality from the perl package.
I will remove the unversioned dependency on libdbi-perl that dh_perl_dbi
generates in the next upload.
Regards,
Ansgar
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