Perl 5.14

[Iain Arnell]

2011/6/1 Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano at redhat.com>:
> On 06/01/2011 03:28 PM, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
>>
>> Now that Fedora 15 is out, I was hoping we would work perl 5.14 in
>> rawhide quickly enough as to be able to fix all the resulting bugs in
>> time for Fedora 16 release.
>>
>> Is anything planned?
>>
>> Emmanuel
>
> On perl porters were reported serious bugs with 5.14.0, so we are
> waiting for 5.14.1 anyway.
>
> At the moment I and Petr are working on new filters, better generating
> of provides and requires and automatic script for rebuild of related
> packages. We'd like to push all changes in test build target in koji.
> Hopefully, this time it will be easier than rebuild for perl5.12.

For kicks, I rebuilt all perl-* packages in mock recently against
5.14. After getting all the arch-specific packages rebuilt in the
correct order (actually, just repeatedly rebuild all failing
arch-dependent packages until no more builds succeed), everything else
pretty much just works. Most failures are fixed simply by updating to
latest upstream version or applying a patch from rt - and I pushed a
bunch of these into rawhide a few weeks ago. I never got around to
finalising the rest, but ended up with around 35 failures, many of
which have an upstream update available or a patch in rt. From the
list I have here at the minute (which may be incomplete), these
packages had non-trivial problems:

perl-Class-DBI-AsForm
perl-DBM-Deep
perl-Mail-MboxParser
perl-mogilefs-server
perl-Net-FTPServer
perl-Net-SSH-Perl
perl-OpenFrame
perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule
perl-rpm-build-perl
perl-Wx-Perl-DataWalker

I've got limited time for the next week or so, but will try to get a
proper list of failures, reasons, and (potential) fixes shortly after
that.

Bottom line, though, I'd rather see 5.14.0 in rawhide soon so that we
can iron out the difficulties together. A later update to 5.14.1
/should/ be trivial with no need for an additional mass rebuild.

Of course, the newly dual-lifed packages that were added to core in
5.14 need to be sub-packaged in perl.spec too as we have all of them
as separate packages already. I have a patch, but can't get my hands
on it until June 13th.

-- 
Iain.