Package: perl Version: 5.12.3-6 We've been carrying the fixes/processPL divergence to ExtUtils::MakeMaker for five years because of #357264.
I finally looked into this; the issue was a change in EU::MM 6.30 (shipped with Perl 5.8.8) that made the pdl package FTBFS. The upstream ticket [rt.cpan.org #17224] is rather confused and got closed with no changes. I think the problem was fixed for pdl 2.4.3 shortly afterwards with commit http://pdl.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=pdl/pdl;a=commitdiff;h=a8849de2ca393fd308c9cfcea6d626b37d9d8728 I've verified that - pdl does build with our divergence (obviously :) - pdl does build without our divergence - pdl doesn't build if the above fix is reverted without our divergence (#357264) - pdl does build if the above fix is reverted with our divergence At some point I think we should revert the patch, possibly with some test rebuilds first to make sure no other package in the archive is relying on our divergence. (IMO this is a bit overly defensive but easy enough that it may be worth doing.) -- 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
