From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:34:12 -0400 Message-ID: <20170727173412.GA10977@jasmine.lan> References: <20170710204706.GA28204@jasmine.lan> <20170714165009.GA11090@jasmine.lan> <20170726063619.GC12553@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <878tja6ykp.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50517) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1damfy-00043S-Pw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:34:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1damfv-0007yG-Nb for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 13:34:18 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878tja6ykp.fsf@gnu.org> 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: Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Court=E8s wrote: > Hi Efraim, >=20 > Efraim Flashner skribis: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > 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.) >=20 > Thoughts? The "stereotypical" Perl 5.26.0-related failures are the "dotless @INC" and regex brace-escaping issues. Both of these can be fixed downstream (in Guix) fairly easily, if necessary. --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAll6JA4ACgkQJkb6MLrK fwghqw/7Bolyv8uaPWDySEe8oVP/lVwZH3pEhb6NEdaRtinLuWbk+dhkwsfCQo3D 7ZKROr4Bs3s4zyKiJxe0q1WMTFfQW8xP0Gy6Nc/ZSpTeQTIPNraefFXMUy8HXG8T KQog5onVEzbEi5BNtK4CDDxEriKPITnO0x3cmTp/qtE4X9YFvhQbxsq2RkGeMRUB uwrLQx4Nihc5BfI0eUgsGAnAe+wpzfAyo0XvogrQqXNqObaUw31JxOQaHF5x8zeE IV9epgKD30EBFZbcYYqyURiE2vuoaSDV2uJpP+NBdTTEAuSwnQO2a8PqN5guwD87 NnT2MIU2XRdMpK0Gxk2RdwYQmuAjikZi+q0UA/orsk570aj7q/cNz05XawzxE3tI Kl7Cm51355QMeFW8RiJ9mFn3L/VeYwjaRkfT3mYQOqJTiGCuCNc8YFRBBLjDdlqE /XJjwtfFIseqQTwttcfzz0Jvup7gV2csHVeQFvpQINhp2LXPu52DSRetqdLPme5p DLaIzPDJ9v7O4gBMNtlUd6WwPj0XRJcIegpHlCYp1y/KaCCJT93ncKaI2fIlkODP pnTwycqE6JUtMx881ORHGss1cLPvVr3yD8DFhlpskOCswxF9q60+a12F+bwauGY2 L6xRtDgnbR5Md+zYdUkSgbwfU9T8XeVmCS8VZa0FpAQ1Z1+43V0= =jZsX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IS0zKkzwUGydFO0o--