Bug#626094: perl: debian/patches/fixes/processPL.diff is obsolete

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 10:03:51PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 08:10:13PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > > At some point I think we should revert the patch, possibly with some test
> > > rebuilds first to make sure no other package in the archive is relying
> > > on our divergence. (IMO this is a bit overly defensive but easy enough
> > > that it may be worth doing.)
> > 
> > Sounds good. I'll look at doing this once the 5.12 migration is
> > completed.
> 
> Reverting this and rebuilding 5.12:
> 
> t/porting/checkcase............................................FAILED at test 130

> $ ../perl -I../lib porting/checkcase.t |grep -v ^ok
> not ok 131 - lib/Version, lib/version
> 1..11197
> 
> I assume that this patch has somehow become depended upon by one of
> our other patches, maybe extutils_hacks, but I can't see why now.

I find this hard to believe, and I couldn't reproduce it myself.

Is it reproducible for you after 'git clean -dfx'? If it is, could
you put the resulting source package available somewhere?
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org