From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:03:50 +0200 Message-ID: <878tja6ykp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170710204706.GA28204@jasmine.lan> <20170714165009.GA11090@jasmine.lan> <20170726063619.GC12553@macbook42.flashner.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35107) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daei3-0004hd-Sx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 05:03:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1daei0-0000YD-PI for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 05:03:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170726063619.GC12553@macbook42.flashner.co.il> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2017 09:36:19 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Efraim Flashner Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Efraim, Efraim Flashner skribis: > There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be better > to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl > modules separately. It seems to me that there are a large number of perl > packages that haven't been updated in quite some time. 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.) Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99.