On Sun, Jul 03, 2016 at 09:00:53PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 04:41:50PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Package: libdata-alias-perl
> > Version: 1.20-1
> > Severity: important
> > User: debian-p...@lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: perl-5.24-transition zrh2016
> > Forwarded: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=112289
> >
> > This package fails to build with Perl 5.24 (currently in experimental).
> >
> > PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM"
> > "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(1,
> > 'inc', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> > Can't load '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/blib/arch/auto/Data/Alias/Alias.so' for
> > module Data::Alias: /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/blib/arch/auto/Data/Alias/Alias.so:
> > undefined symbol: LEAVESUB at
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.24/DynaLoader.pm line 187.
>
> This issue seems to be our worst blocker for migrating to Perl 5.24.
>
> There are some hints in the CPAN ticket, and I was able to get the
> module to load with those (without really understanding half of what I
> was doing). The test suite still blows up quite spectacularly.
>
> There are a few reverse dependencies of libdata-alias-perl in Debian,
> but it does look somewhat possible to move ahead without this package
> if that turns out to be necessary. In particular, Data-Visitor only has
> an optional dependency on Data-Alias.
The freeze for the next Debian release (stretch) is approaching,
so it looks like if we want to get Perl 5.24 there, we need to drop
Data::Alias. I intend to file bugs for the reverse dependencies,
listed below.
The first two (Method::Signatures and Data::Visitor) degrade gracefully
when Data::Alias is not available, disabling some of their features. Some
testing will be needed to see whether other packages make use of these
features, particularly for Data::Visitor which has a longish list of
further reverse dependencies.
libmethod-signatures-perl
# optional dependency, degraded feature set
libdata-visitor-perl
# optional dependency, degraded feature set
lintian
# could hopefully be patched to use the core >= 5.22 'refaliasing' feature?
libvar-pairs-perl
# leaf package, can be dropped
libdevel-callparser-perl
# only needed for test suite
libkavorka-perl
# would also pull Moops (libmoops-perl) out with it
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Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org
