Re: epics-perl & perlapi-5.10.1

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@bnl.gov>]

Hi Martin,

On 03/10/2013 07:43 AM, Martin Konrad wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> thank you for providing new Debian packages for EPICS 3.14.12.
> Unfortunately I can only use them on squeeze but not on Ubuntu quantal
> because quantal does not provide perlapi-5.10.1 but only perlapi-5.14.2.
> Is it really necessary to depend on a fixed version of Perl or can you
> also use something like "perl-base >= 5.10.1"?

The added dependency is caused by a change I made to where libCap5.so is 
installed for the 3.14.12 series.  Previously if was installed in 
/usr/lib/epics/lib, now it is under /usr/share/perl5 (I'll check, but I 
think it should actually be in /usr/lib/perl5).

The dependency is emit by the dh_perl helper script when it finds that a 
package contains .so or .pm files in perl specific paths.  So previously 
this wasn't being triggered because libCap5.so wasn't installed in the 
standard place.

As far as I can see this wasn't causing any issues as the only perl 
scripts using this module are caget.pl and friends (included in the 
epics-dev package).

So avoiding the perlapi-* dep for epics-dev means moving (or removing) 
these scripts.  My current plan is to move CA.pm, libCap5.so, and the 
scripts which use them to a separate binary package.  Thoughts?

Also, I hope to start providing builds for Debian Wheezy (7.0) this 
week.  I'm still working on some issue with my pbuilder scripts.

Michael