Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver <[email protected]> · Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:16:09 -0400

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

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System