Re: Bug#796345: Status report on perl 5.22 transition readiness (30th Sept)

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

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.

Cheers,
Emilio