[Debconf-devel] Bug#863071: Bug#863071: debconf: POSIX::tmpnam() is deprecated in Perl 5.24 and will be removed in 5.26

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 06:21:55PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 01:48:54PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > Proposed, lightly tested patch attached. Niels said on IRC
> > that it would be good to fix this for stretch, so presumably
> > it's OK for an unblock by the release team.
> 
> Thanks; applied in 1.5.61, with the amendment that I bumped the
> Pre-Depends on perl-base to 5.20.1-3~ to account for this.

Thanks!

> Please do also add the appropriate Breaks (or Conflicts if necessary,
> but I suspect that's overkill and it may be harmful) to perl-base 5.26;
> it isn't uncommon for people to try skip upgrades which mostly work even
> if they're unsupported, and I wouldn't want to see them broken due to
> something we could have avoided.

Breaks added in git. We'll see how it goes.
-- 
Niko