On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:10:04AM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > Source: perl > > Version: 5.24.1-4 > > Severity: important > > > > Hello, with the new zlib > 1.2.9 the testsuite fails, > > (e.g. you can look at Ubuntu build failures). > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/5.24.1-2 > > > > I found the test failures on rt.cpan.org and I applied to Ubuntu the > > proposed > > patches: > > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120134 > > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119762
> Just to be clear, this is in Compress-Raw-Zlib that has already > (according to https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119762) > been fixed in 2.74, which is already in blead and perl 5.26 (which is > in experimental). The Ubuntu patches and the second bug also reference IO-Compress, not sure if that's upstream yet. > I'm not convinced that we need to spend time on fixing this for 5.24 > given where we are in the release cycle, but this will depend on > when the zlib maintainer (Cced) plans to update to a newer zlib. Agreed. -- Niko
