Re: Bug#796345: Status report on perl 5.22 transition readiness (30th Sept)
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 07:08:55PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 02/12/15 17:48, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 11:09:09AM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> >> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 01:24:29AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >>>> On 30/10/15 14:34, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> >>>>> That'd only leave us with the apache bug.
> >>>>
> >>>> There's a patch available for that now, right?
> >>>
> >>> Yes. It has been included in the upload to experimental 1.5 days ago:
> >>> https://packages.qa.debian.org/liba/libapache2-mod-perl2/news/20151130T194855Z.html
> >>
> >> I will run some test builds with perl 5.22, that package, and the packages
> >> build-depending on libapache2-mod-perl2 over the next day or so. Then
> >> hopefully we can really get this transition under way!
> >
> > I've tested the packages which were blocked by libapache2-mod-perl2
> > today, and filed two new bug reports, against libembperl-perl[1] and
> > libapache-gallery-perl[2]. The former unfortunately has a history of
> > breaking with new perl releases and fixes may not be forthcoming;
> > it also has a low and diminishing popcon, so I think at this stage we
> > should not let it block our transition.
> >
> > The latter is a trivial fix (and does not block the transition as
> > it's an arch:all package); I expect it will be fixed either by the
> > maintainer, or by NMU, soon.
> >
> > I will try some real world testing with the new libapache2-mod-perl2
> > package in sid/perl 5.20 later this week, and then I think we can plan
> > to go ahead with the transition after that - as soon as this weekend
> > if other ongoing transitions allow?
>
> Yeah, that's probably fine. Let us know how your tests go.
Niko reminded me that 5.22.1 is due out as soon as the weekend, and
it would make sense to transition with that rather than have to
build a mini-transition in later. So we'll work to integrate that
into experimental with suitable QA before the transition, if that's
okay with you. I think that should only delay things by a couple of
days.
Dominic.
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