Package: perl Version: 5.10.1-9 Severity: wishlist I've been looking at patchlevel.h handling so that `perl -V' outputs a list of the Debian patches. I'm filing this bug mostly for future reference.
The current approach, which I'm about to upload to experimental as 5.10.1-10, generates such a list from the information in debian/patches and puts it in patchlevel.h. This is done with the command 'debian/rules refresh-patchlevel'. The target is designed to be idempotent and specifically does not require a git checkout to make life easier for NMUers and Debian derivatives. The version of the perl package is also embedded in the patch list. This makes it possible to check the actual patches for example from http://patch-tracker.debian.org or snapshot.debian.org. I've also updated many of the patch descriptions to conform with the "DEP-3 Patch Tagging Guidelines", http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ . The immediate gain is that `perl -V' can list all the Debian and upstream bug IDs for reference. It would be good to investigate at least those patches without any bug id and possibly file a bug about the upstream divergence describing its rationale. The result looks like this ATM: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration: [...] Locally applied patches: DEBPKG:debian/arm_fp - Skip two Math::Complex tests on the arm architectures. DEBPKG:debian/arm_optim - http://bugs.debian.org/333510 use -Os instead of -O2 on arm/armeb to fix build failures with gcc4 DEBPKG:debian/arm_thread_stress_timeout - http://bugs.debian.org/501970 Raise the timeout of ext/threads/shared/t/stress.t to accommodate slower build hosts DEBPKG:debian/cpan_config_path - Set location of CPAN::Config to /etc/perl as /usr may not be writable. DEBPKG:debian/cpan_definstalldirs - Provide a sensible INSTALLDIRS default for modules installed from CPAN. DEBPKG:debian/db_file_ver - http://bugs.debian.org/340047 Remove overly restrictive DB_File version check. DEBPKG:debian/doc_info - Replace generic man(1) instructions with Debian-specific information. DEBPKG:debian/enc2xs_inc - http://bugs.debian.org/290336 Tweak enc2xs to follow symlinks and ignore missing @INC directories. DEBPKG:debian/errno_ver - http://bugs.debian.org/343351 Remove Errno version check due to upgrade problems with long-running processes. DEBPKG:debian/extutils_hacks - Various debian-specific ExtUtils changes DEBPKG:debian/fakeroot - Postpone LD_LIBRARY_PATH evaluation to the binary targets. DEBPKG:debian/instmodsh_doc - Debian policy doesn't install .packlist files for core or vendor. DEBPKG:debian/ld_run_path - Remove standard libs from LD_RUN_PATH as per Debian policy. DEBPKG:debian/libnet_config_path - Set location of libnet.cfg to /etc/perl/Net as /usr may not be writable. DEBPKG:debian/m68k_thread_stress - http://bugs.debian.org/495826 Disable some threads tests on m68k for now due to missing TLS. DEBPKG:debian/missing_hosts - Suppress test failure on buildds which don't have /etc/hosts installed. DEBPKG:debian/mod_paths - Tweak @INC ordering for Debian DEBPKG:debian/module_build_man_extensions - http://bugs.debian.org/479460 Adjust Module::Build manual page extensions for the Debian Perl policy DEBPKG:debian/perl_synopsis - http://bugs.debian.org/278323 Rearrange perl.pod DEBPKG:debian/ppc_ia64_optim - Don't need to downgrade optimisation on ppc/ia64 with gcc 4.x DEBPKG:debian/prune_libs - http://bugs.debian.org/128355 Prune the list of libraries wanted to what we actually need. DEBPKG:debian/use_gdbm - Explicitly link against -lgdbm_compat in ODBM_File/NDBM_File. DEBPKG:fixes/assorted_docs - http://bugs.debian.org/443733 Integrate a grammar fix from upstream. DEBPKG:fixes/net_smtp_docs - http://bugs.debian.org/100195 [rt.cpan.org #36038] Document the Net::SMTP 'Port' option DEBPKG:fixes/processPL - http://bugs.debian.org/357264 [rt.cpan.org #17224] Always use PERLRUNINST when building perl modules. DEBPKG:debian/perlivp - http://bugs.debian.org/510895 Make perlivp skip include directories in /usr/local DEBPKG:fixes/pod2man-index-backslash - http://bugs.debian.org/521256 Escape backslashes in .IX entries DEBPKG:debian/disable-zlib-bundling - Disable zlib bundling in Compress::Raw::Zlib DEBPKG:fixes/pod-nitpicks - fix pod errors DEBPKG:fixes/kfreebsd_cppsymbols - http://bugs.debian.org/533098 Add gcc predefined macros to $Config{cppsymbols} on GNU/kFreeBSD. DEBPKG:debian/cpanplus_definstalldirs - http://bugs.debian.org/533707 Configure CPANPLUS to use the site directories by default. DEBPKG:debian/cpanplus_config_path - Save local versions of CPANPLUS::Config::System into /etc/perl. DEBPKG:fixes/kfreebsd-filecopy-pipes - http://bugs.debian.org/537555 Fix File::Copy::copy with pipes on GNU/kFreeBSD DEBPKG:fixes/anon-tmpfile-dir - http://bugs.debian.org/528544 [perl #66452] Honor TMPDIR when open()ing an anonymous temporary file DEBPKG:fixes/abstract-sockets - http://bugs.debian.org/490660 Add support for Abstract namespace sockets. DEBPKG:fixes/hurd_cppsymbols - http://bugs.debian.org/544307 Add gcc predefined macros to $Config{cppsymbols} on GNU/Hurd. DEBPKG:fixes/autodie-flock - http://bugs.debian.org/543731 Allow for flock returning EAGAIN instead of EWOULDBLOCK on linux/parisc DEBPKG:fixes/archive-tar-instance-error - http://bugs.debian.org/539355 [rt.cpan.org #48879] Separate Archive::Tar instance error strings from each other DEBPKG:fixes/positive-gpos - http://bugs.debian.org/545234 [perl #69056] Fix \G crash on first match DEBPKG:debian/devel-ppport-ia64-optim - http://bugs.debian.org/548943 Work around an ICE on ia64 DEBPKG:debian/dynaloader-config - http://bugs.debian.org/549170 Make DynaLoader work without Config_heavy.pl again DEBPKG:fixes/trie-logic-match - http://bugs.debian.org/552291 Fix a DoS in Unicode processing [CVE-2009-3626] DEBPKG:fixes/hppa-thread-eagain - http://bugs.debian.org/554218 make the threads-shared test suite more robust, fixing failures on hppa DEBPKG:fixes/crash-on-undefined-destroy - http://bugs.debian.org/564074 Fix a NULL pointer dereference when looking for a DESTROY method DEBPKG:patchlevel - List packaged patches for 5.10.1-10 in patchlevel.h -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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