Hi, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 05:12:53PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:35:16 +0200, Hagen Fuchs wrote: > > > > I just noticed that, upon upgrading to Perl 5.18.1-3 (Debian testing), > > > common::sense stopped having some: > > > - need to set lower and upper bounds of the perl version in Depends (not > > only the lower, as it's now) > > The new perl-base also needs to Break the old libcommon-sense-perl > versions, for partial upgrades from wheezy. Please clone a bug for that > when there's a fixed libcommon-sense-perl package in the archive.
Noted. > > - add it to our mental list of packages that needs rebuilds on new > > perl releases > > The dependencies should make it possible to detect this automatically > in the future, but there's also a list at > https://wiki.debian.org/PerlMaintenance > > Feel free to update that. Done. > Not sure if all the internals that common::sense fiddles with are under > the 'no ABI changes in minor Perl version updates' promise. I suspect they > are, but we might still be best off rebuilding it even for minor updates. That's actually the consensus to which gregoa and me came on IRC, too. > Last, I note that autopkgtest and a good test suite in common::sense > would have caught this :) Good point! I'll probably use that example to learn how autopkgtest works -- either by looking at them in case someone else wrote some or by writing them myself otherwise -- I though can't promise that this will be soon... Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org