Re: Further perl-related candidates for stable-updates
On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 23:24 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 03:29:01PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > The update to Perl in the recent stable point release included a fix
> > which broke backward compatibility, leading to issues in the
> > libdevel-declare-perl package and, in turn, in other packages using
> > Devel::Declare, such as libtrycatch-perl.
>
> Thanks for this. The test rebuilds have now completed. The other
> notable issues which could warrant a stable-update were:
>
> - biber 1.9-3+deb8u1 - I was contacted by a user who has experienced
> real world breakage due to this one.
Ah, I thought this was just a test failure. Is it causing run-time issues as well?
> - libcss-dom-perl 0.15-1+deb8u1 - possibly, although this was breakage
> from the *previous* point release
Indeed, the fact that this wasn't a new issue, and apparently wasn't
affecting any users enough for them to bother reporting it, was why I
hadn't pushed this one through -updates so far.
Regards,
Adam
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