On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:12:22PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > I got as far as getting it to compile (patch attached) without breaking > 5.10.1, but the tests segfault on 5.12.
I have some good and some bad news. The bad news is that fixing the segfaults looks far from trivial. The Perl change that broke this is probably http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/f7461760003db2ce68155c97ea6c1658e96fcd27 AIUI, Data::Alias hooks onto OP_RV2CV and modifies the parser state, but the change makes the rv2cv op get generated earlier and the modifications break. I doubt I'll be able to put a fix together (but I haven't quite given up yet.) The good news is that the only direct reverse dependency, libdata-visitor-perl, only uses Data::Alias::deref(), which works fine with 5.12. Furthermore, it's really a soft dependency and the relevant tests are skipped if Data::Alias is not installed. This gives us a few new options, assuming libdata-alias-perl doesn't get fixed in time (or at all): A: disable the test suite in libdata-alias-perl and ship a package that works just 'well enough' B: remove libdata-alias-perl from the archive: either B1. remove the libdata-visitor-perl dependency on libdata-alias-perl and hope that no libdata-visitor-perl reverse dependencies need the removed functionality OR B2. split Data::Alias::deref() out into a new package and make libdata-visitor-perl use that. OR B3. find another dereferencing implementation and make libdata-visitor-perl use that. B2 or B3 are the only options that look "right" to me. Obviously upstream should be involved. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
