F20 System Wide Change: Perl 5.18

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:57:42 -0700
Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 22:52 +0200, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > * Adam Williamson [06/08/2013 13:43] :
> > >
> > > perl-Test-Refcount-0:0.07-8.fc19.noarch
> > 
> > This module doesn't build against perl 5.18.x (so please stop
> > trying to do it, folks).
> > 
> > This is https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85998
> 
> Unfortunately, lots of other things appear to depend on it, so it not
> building has a rather sever knock-on effect.
> 
> For instance, perl-Future has it as a buildrequire, and perl-IO-Async
> has both perl-Future and perl-Test-Refcount as buildrequires...

A temporary workaround might be to disable the tests that require
Test::RefCount in the packages that use it, until such time as it's
fixed. That would help get more of the stack done, at least until we
hit something that depends on a broken module for core functionality
rather than just its test suite.

> surely this sort of mess should've been sorted out before 5.18 was
> ever shipped stable?!

Well yes it should, but we only find these things by trying to build
the 2,000+ perl packages and it would have been nice if the
rebuild-in-progress hadn't been tagged into rawhide before the job was
done.

Paul.