On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:09:09AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Niko Tyni wrote:
> >> I run a few greps on debian/rules of the source packages of all the
> >> binary packages matching '-perl' in unstable. Results: at least 398
> >> arch:all and 38 arch:any packages apparently do an unconditional rmdir
> >> for the empty directory.
Update: three weeks after my mass bug filing 70% of the 'arch:all rmdir
failed' (aka. perl-5.10-ftbfs-rmdir on [1]) bugs have been fixed. There
are still 119 of them left, though. Kudos particularly to Gregor and
the other hard-working pkg-perl folks for the almost endless stream of
closed bugs :)
Additionally, there are 13 arch:all packages that fail to build for other
reasons ('perl-5.10-ftbfs' on [1]), mainly due to test suite failures.
Two of them are still using pseudo hashes..
> I'm keen to get 5.10 into Lenny, since the length of our stable release
> cycles otherwise means that we'll be stuck with 5.8 for quite a while.
>
> My initial thought was to set up a staging area, although was told that
> with the binNMU mechanism it should no longer be necessary... This
> issue with rmdir however would appear to have torpedoed that plan.
Out of the 310 arch:any packages that need to be binNMU'd, 36 currently
fail to build with Perl 5.10 (most of 'perl-5.10-transition' on [1]).
These take 8 more with them because their build dependencies include
libxml-parser-perl (#458144) or libpadwalker-perl (#463546) from the
first set.
21 of the 36 failures are due to the 'rmdir issue'.
Note that this doesn't take into account 'regular' FTBFS issues on
current sid, I haven't usertagged those.
Anyway, it looks like the binNMU plan is still good, and a patch/NMU
campaign of the relatively few 'perl-5.10-transition' bugs on [1] would
make it even better. Any takers?
> Given the mechanical nature of the fix required, I am still inclined to
> uploading to unstable before the soft freeze in a week or so. Remember,
> it's called "unstable" for a reason, people.
It's been more than three weeks now. Any news on the schedule?
[1] usertag overview linked from the end of
http://wiki.debian.org/Perl5.10Transition
Cheers,
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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