rawhide perl-5.12 status

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 07/07/2010 09:37 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> On 07/03/2010 08:06 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> An update:
>>
>> I filed BZ's on all of those packages which haven't not already been
>> tracked as FTBS. All of these BZs are tagged as "F14Target" rsp.
>> F14FTBFS (which indirectly blocks "F14Target").
>>
> Thank for filing these bugzillas.

Welcome. ATM, these are still open:

>> * BackupPC-3.1.0-14
>> > wants perl-suidperl (Abandoned by perl-5.12.)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611009
Fedora maintainer and upstream maintainer seem to have difficulties in 
understanding the issue and finding a solution. Iain has proposed a 
(IMHO) viable work-around, but no conclusions/results so far.

>> > * perl-DBI-Dumper
>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=555496
> FTBS, open since 2010-01-14, no response from maintainer.

>> > * perl-Data-Alias
>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611014

>> > * perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule
>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=611015

>> > * perl-Test-AutoBuild
>> > Fails to build - Dead upstream
>> > (Upstream maintainer: Daniel P. Berrangé,
>> >    Fedora maintainer: berrange at fp.org ?!?)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539046
> FTBS, open since 2009-11-19, no response from maintainer.

I'd propose to close and abandon the perl-* packages rather "soonish 
than later" and not to wait for "Fedora 14". I.e. I'd propose to set 
these package's maintainers a firm deadline (say, 1-2 weeks from now) 
and then to kill the then remaining perl-modules.

IMO, these package's maintainers and their upstreams knew about these 
packages issues for long enough and had sufficiently often been warned.

Ralf