From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:31:18 +0000 Message-ID: <2C5C5FC5-B8FF-486D-A1E5-26ED7BE0743B@flashner.co.il> References: <20170710204706.GA28204@jasmine.lan> <20170714165009.GA11090@jasmine.lan> <20170726063619.GC12553@macbook42.flashner.co.il> <878tja6ykp.fsf@gnu.org> <20170727181157.GA8929@jasmine.lan> 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]:34357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1danZH-0006g8-AG for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:31:28 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1danZC-0000bS-3X for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:31:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20170727181157.GA8929@jasmine.lan> 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: Leo Famulari , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On July 27, 2017 9:11:57 PM GMT+03:00, Leo Famulari = wrote: >On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: >> Hi Efraim, >>=20 >> Efraim Flashner skribis: >>=20 >> > There's a lot of perl related build failures=2E Maybe it would be >better >> > to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the >perl >> > modules separately=2E It seems to me that there are a large number of >perl >> > packages that haven't been updated in quite some time=2E >>=20 >> Reverting is not an option at this point IMO=2E 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=2E) >>=20 >> Thoughts? > >I'll work on building Biber now=2E > >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=2E So, if >Guix users care about them, they should speak up now :) Not as a reason to put it off, but Debian is beginning their Perl transiti= on and I've noticed some of the modules I've looked at have Debian develope= rs as the upstream=2E --=20 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail=2E Please excuse my brevity=2E