Perl 5.14

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 06/03/2011 10:29 PM, Iain Arnell wrote:
> 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
That didn't work with 5.12.
> perl-rpm-build-perl
I guess problem with new rpm.
> 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.
> 
I built 5.14.0 in dist-f16-perl. We'd like to start rebuilt in this
branch tomorrow after we polish our script. Warning will be sent to
fedora-devel.

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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno