Bug#830200: transition: perl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> We'd like to have Perl 5.24 in stretch.
>
> Packages have been in experimental since May, and we've been doing
> test rebuilds with those. Issues are tracked with the usertag
> debian-perl@lists.debian.org / perl-5.24-transition and can be seen at
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.24-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org
>
> The worst blockers are currently libdata-alias-perl (#825011) and net-snmp
> (#825014), and there are still a few other build failures with fewer
> reverse dependencies. I'll mark this bug as blocked by those soon.
>
> There are no major packaging changes with 5.24, but this is the first
> time that the new libperl package (libperl5.24) is coinstallable with
> the older one (libperl5.22). Some upgrade testing is still needed,
> but we do not expect this to cause trouble.
I'd like to propose that we upload perl 5.24 to unstable next week.
There are a few things left to deal with and I've just updated the blocker
list. I think they can all be either fixed in a week or removed,
with the possible exception of graphicsmagick which was a new FTBFS
which has popped up only on ppc64el.
#825524: liblexical-underscore-perl - there is a patch available
#834249: openbabel - there is a patch available
#825012: libalgorithm-permute-perl - no rdeps, to remove
#825231: libdevel-beginlift-perl - no rdeps, to remove
#837719: graphicsmagick - new issue, may need to wait or push for hacky fix?
#825762: libtext-sprintfn-perl - fixed upstream
#834800: libkavorka-perl - one rdep libmoops-perl, both can be removed
There is also
#825011: libdata-alias-perl
which we've agreed to be removed, and one non-blocking FTBFS with perl
5.24 bug open:
#825611: libparse-http-useragent-perl
I've also increased the severity of all FTBFS with perl 5.24 bugs
to serious (7 out of the above 9).
Thanks,
Dominic.
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