On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:57:42PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > 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.)
Sounds good. I'll look at doing this once the 5.12 migration is completed. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
