Perl 5.12 repository pushed to Alioth
Niko Tyni
ntyni at debian.org
Tue Apr 6 21:36:30 UTC 2010
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:35:13PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> The next aim is to build unofficial binNMUs of (most of?) the 409 arch:any
> packages in
>
> http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/perl-5.10-transition/perlapi.out?view=markup
>
> and put them available in a public personal repository somewhere. After that
> it's possible to do test rebuilds of the 2000 or so arch:all packages
> matching /perl/ and see how much breaks.
Update: I've now done all the rebuilds, quoting the report I just sent to p5p:
I tried to rebuild ~2150 Perl related packages from the Debian 'unstable'
suite: those with names matching /perl/ or linking against libperl.
There were about 80 build failures, and 110 packages could not be
tested because their build dependencies could not be installed [1].
The remaining 1950 packages built fine.
About 60 failures were Perl 5.12 regressions. Six of those are already
fixed in newer module versions on CPAN.
35 failed because of Perl::MinimumVersion breaking ([rt.cpan.org #56081]).
I think these tests are mostly run only when AUTOMATED_TESTING is set,
so they probably don't show up on the CPAN tester reports.
I haven't put the arch:any binNMUs anywhere on the web yet as I'm not
sure if a ~300M repository is too big for people.debian.org. Probably
I'm just too shy.
> Somewhere in between an upload to experimental would be a good thing to
> see if the beast builds on all platforms and provide a common baseline
> package.
Did this today, but it needs to pass NEW first.
> As is probably obvious all of this is going to take a while, but it's
> mostly scriptable. I think some results can be expected in a week or so,
> depending on how soon I get this running.
Heh, it's been a week today :)
--
Niko
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