gregor herrmann wrote: > I'd still like to see this feature in debhelper, preferrably in <= 9, > so I've looked at the code a bit:
> In patch 0001-dh_perl-add-S-_s_ameperl-switch-in-v9.patch I've added
> a -S switch, that adds exactly these values to ${perl:Depends}, and
> can be used with d/compat=9 and
>
> override_dh_perl:
> dh_perl -S
There's no reason to make this contingent on a compat level, it cannot
possibly break anything sane to add a switch.
The patch would be better if it included documentation. Concisely
documenting how -S is different than -V and when -S should be used seems
difficult.
What packages currently have such a tight dependency on perl?
> > > How about providing a new substvar? Something like ${perl:Same} or
> > > ${perl:Built} that would expand to a proper >=, << dependency like the
> > > one above.
> > > A new substvar would avoid adding command-line switches to dh_perl,
> > > which may be hidden in a 'dh' call.
>
> I've implemented this in
> 0002-dh_perl-add-perl-Current-and-perl-Next-substvars-in-.patch,
> again only in compat mode 9, to be used by adding
>
> ${perl:Current} and/or ${perl:Next}
This doesn't seem to have a strong reason to need v9 either.
But I don't see a reason to support both these methods, and the -S
method seems simpler.
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