Dependencies for DBD drivers ============================ This information is only relevant for maintainers of Debian packages providing DBD drivers. Packages using the binary DBD<>DBI interface need to depend on the perl-dbdabi-* virtual package provided by libdbi-perl. To generate this dependency please do one of the following: debhelper using dh: Use the "perl_dbi" addon and ensure ${perl:Depends} is used in debian/control. This requires a build-dependency on libdbi-perl (>= 1.612). The debian/rules file might look as follows: #!/usr/bin/make -f %: dh $@ --with perl_dbi Alternatively, since libdbi-perl/1.642-1 you can just build depend on dh-sequence-perl-dbi and omit the "--with perl_dbi" part. old-style debhelper: Run dh_perl_dbi after dh_perl and ensure ${perl:Depends} is used in debian/control. This requires a build dependency on libdbi-perl (>= 1.612). packages not using debhelper: Include /usr/share/libdbi-perl/perl-dbdabi.make in debian rules and use PERL_DBDABI_DEPENDS. This requires a build-dependency on libdbi-perl (>= 1.610.90+is+1.609). See http://bugs.debian.org/577209 for a discussion why this dependency is required.