On July 27, 2017 12:03:50 PM GMT+03:00, l...@gnu.org wrote: >Hi Efraim, > >Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > >> There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be >better >> to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl >> modules separately. It seems to me that there are a large number of >perl >> packages that haven't been updated in quite some time. > >Reverting is not an option at this point IMO. There are several >Date::* >modules required by Biber that FTBFS and need an update, indeed, but I >think we should rather find a way to fix them (I spent a bit of time on >it but then moved on to something else.) > >Thoughts? > >Ludo’.
A quick run on my computer showed 523 packages that start with 'perl-', apparently all but one build on master but about 90 fail on core-updates. A bunch have newer versions upstream, which would involve packaging some new Perl modules also. It doesn't sound too bad, I don't think too many have hundreds of dependants so we should be able to get through it. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
