Perl 5.12 transition underway; summary of blockers

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:15:26PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> As detailed on
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619117>
> the transition to perl 5.12, beginning with the upload of 5.12.3 to
> unstable, is almost upon us. There are quite a few blocking bugs
> still though, as listed on that page. Of particular interest to
> the Debian perl group are:

Here's the current situation of bugs that need work, based on 
<http://release.debian.org/~jcristau/perl-blockers.txt>.

bug in pkg-perl maintained package:

libembperl-perl             ftbfs #624578
- some progress, triggered by recent mod_perl
libforks-perl               missing powerpc, armel ftbfs, #626051
- this was also #587463
libgstreamer-perl           ftbfs, #616454 #623929
- tests fail
libnet-freedb-perl          armel ftbfs, #625840
- not diagnosed
libogre-perl                #613924
- not diagnosed             
libsane-perl                sparc ftbfs, #626019
- tests hang
pperl                   #533934
- tests fail on buildds
- note: version in archive not maintained by pkg-perl but
  takeover package in preparation in svn

others

lasso					#624777
- patch, needs more work?
kildclient				#555000
- there's a patch, may need sponsor
lfc					kfreebsd-i386 weirdness, #626070
- make install.man seems to fail.
libbuffy-bindings			#624767 #624889
- build-dep should be changed to swig 2
liboping				kfreebsd ftbfs, #618729
- not diagnosed
net-snmp				nmued 5.4.3~dfsg-2.1, still kbsd ftbfs, #625985
- not diagnosed
opendchub				#616052
- security hole
pcp					ftbfs $HOME not set, #625961
- $HOME not set
qdbm					kfreebsd-i386 weirdness, #626046
- hangs
remctl					amd64+kfreebsd-amd64 ftbfs #626047, caballero fail
- not diagnosed
spread					ftbfs, #625161
- not diagnosed
subversion				kfreebsd+s390+sparc ftbfs, #624810
- not diagnosed
vile					armel+s390 ftbfs, #625963
- hangs
hyperestraier				mips ftbfs, #599982
- possible easy fix, no word from maintainer for a while, could NMU
libdevice-cdio-perl			ftbfs (swig issue, #579450)
- patch available for review
postgresql-9.0				sparc ftbfs, #626054
- tests fail
mapserver				ftbfs, #624811 #625863
- not diagnosed

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