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Subject: Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 23:26:22 +0200
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To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
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Hi Leo,

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> I've got the Date::* modules building with the attached patch series.

Woow, impressive patch set!  At first sight the 26 patches look
reasonable to me, so I would suggest pushing them, along with the
biber-next@2.7 update you mentioned.

As for biber itself, perhaps the best option is to make biber-next the
new biber?  I don=E2=80=99t use it so I can=E2=80=99t really tell whether t=
here=E2=80=99d be
undesirable consequences.

Another option might be to mass-escape left braces in the Biber code,
but that=E2=80=99s probably not that easy=E2=80=A6

Thoughts?

Anyway, this patch series probably closes the main blocker for
core-updates no?

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.