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On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Joshua ben Jore<twists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Dave Mitchell<davem@iabyn.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, is the issue something that will affect all or many debian users, or
>> just your site?
>
> I've moved what I deem your most important question to the top.
> There's a fix to this in Debian according to Niko. It is to write
> '(3.0 quilt)' to any Debian package attempting to use the
> lib/Parse/CPAN/Meta/t/data/utf_16_le_bom.yml file. This change is not
> available on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron/8.04/(april 2008) and I haven't
> worked out yet how to get it. I /guess/ for Debian/Ubuntu, it makes
> the upgraded toolchain a requirement to be fulfilled prior to
> packaging 5.10.1. It does appear integrated in Intrepid
> Ibex/8.10/(October 2008).
I figured out how to follow this up. Pages like
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=dpkg-dev and
http://packages.ubuntu.com//search?keywords=dpkg-dev apparently
document the version available in each distribution. The dpkg
changelog shows the required feature appearing at 1.14.17
dpkg (1.14.17) experimental; urgency=low
* dpkg-source has been heavily refactored to make it easier to support
multiple source package formats. Several new source package formats have
been added:
- the format "3.0 (quilt)" is based on 2.0. It uses a tarball for the
debian directory and can thus include binary files. Binaries
outside of the debian directory can be also included if they
are listed in debian/source/include-binaries (and option
--include-binaries will generate this file automatically).
Closes: #4588, #4628
-- Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:48:22 +0300
Debian/Ubuntu that's lacking:
etch (oldstable)
etch-m68k
dapper (2006-06)
hardy (LTS, 2008-04, "stable")
Everything that's copacetic:
lenny (stable)
squeeze (testing)
sid (unstable)
intrepid
jaunty
The one fly here that Ubuntu's Hardy is the latest "LTS" or "Long Term
Service" or I guess equivalent to Debian's "stable." It's what we
deploy at work because it's supposed to last longer than a mayfly. Oh
well. I think I now know how to upgrade this now, if I can just find a
the dpkg-1.14.17 package...
Josh
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