Re: Bug#960863: perl-tk: new upstream release fixes issues with Perl 5.31.x

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 09:44:56PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/eserte/perl-tk/pull/61
> Control: tag -1 + upstream fixed-upstream
> 
> On Sun, 17 May 2020 20:08:42 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > although Perl 5.32 is not released yet, we've just started early
> > testing against the archive during our online Debian Perl Sprint.
> > One of the issues we noticed is that the current perl-tk version in sid
> > is incompatible with newer versions of Perl, causing build failures with
> > perl-tk reverse dependencies.
> > 
> > The problem is fixed upstream in the 804.035 release according to
> > the changelog. Importing that into Debian would help our testing
> > efforts. Please consider doing that, and let us know if you'd like
> > any help.
> 
> Fixed upstream in
> https://github.com/eserte/perl-tk/commit/59dfbd147d894596b93f0a8dba5a5cf5af11ceaf
> which is in the current 804.035 release.
> 
> Perl 5.32 is already released upstream and uploded to
> Debian/experimental, so it would be nice to have perl-tk fixed
> soonish as well.

Hi Colin,

This is one of the few remaining blockers for the Perl 5.32 transition
which we'll need to get in in the next couple of months - will you be
able to take a look at updating perl-tk in the near future?

Thanks,
Dominic