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 14:11:57 -0400 Message-ID: <20170727181157.GA8929@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="HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49764) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1danGU-0000Go-QE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:12:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1danGQ-00033m-Qh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:12:02 -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 --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV 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? I'll work on building Biber now. Are there any other failing Perl modules that we *need* to fix? I think we can't achieve zero regressions from an update like this, especially since so many of these modules seem to lack an active upstream. So, if Guix users care about them, they should speak up now :) --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEsFFZSPHn08G5gDigJkb6MLrKfwgFAll6LOwACgkQJkb6MLrK fwhifRAA73IffUo4GS1b/fnRrx5V/r8uWrVTSCM2MLdk99nH9+oVwRuuIbD4k2+x SaU8PxfbC9UKdKdB7Da5yxi8hOTJbFvZ4/n3i6TqBAlx8vEk0X4AJ105K/P9pLFI FgpnvXPJJ7TcEgqPB74K46fDs/kS4UpUWmRq9NaTL5mcLHluqlkPKgVIJn/Rl/LP DeSavIDaBnFE7vQqupP2tMlW1MPTGYbYQqQDBXVeCSUKqfJCnol/HOXCSP3EOIfZ GOaybNwHD+yLsXYZ9Zj3qD5L3qzJOKoy78pLdznJ9cPTfqaqcs4C86BqStuTZT4t YEnhmJ7/PfrI6gEL6aV5u1fl4USvVJETaU5/NwX9T9wuUIfwxxVIEH2UHmTDpLna g7hYCRpMLDzUGvc2QBnwcqwnux+HeY6ihjd+bFFREQpyuze0O8nV7Dlzt21FhJ8y T6VT5Z2hDIByX4FsTdvEa2+RzGJfv35vnox0yAiIZLo0FpteyKICDOgSDOzFkSLU AGSWmYb5Ze1mwEzCzLw4eNd6CTrEX6OGgmkpzl74+jdSv5a3Gzg370lBrf2PPauS 4Pt/5gnmwuKV8CifD82pX0+Yj+kiPGLVzs3FmN3ir4CDrTPy9NDXFSAmCrMSot64 N2aZwVJea7TKcjJ1Ctl+iMPgg8/hBoT4kURKjB3vBr0Wc+I/054= =2xtr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV--