Bug#902557: transition: Perl 5.28

[Damyan Ivanov]

-=| Niko Tyni, 15.08.2018 18:56:32 +0300 |=-
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 04:58:47PM +0000, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> > -=| Niko Tyni, 12.08.2018 12:03:42 +0300 |=-
> > > 
> > > I believe Damyan (cc'd) is now separately testing the whole archive
> > > against Perl 5.28 on his own gear. Last I heard it should be finished
> > > in about a week and the first 20% or so hadn't yielded any regressions,
> > > but maybe he can give a status update?
> > 
> > Current status:
> > 
> >  - 11 036 out of 28 414 source packages tried (39%), of which
> >   - 551 ftbfs with regular sid, as well as with perl 5.28
> >   - 2 ftbfs with perl 5.28 and build fine with regular sid

(https://people.debian.org/~dmn/perl-5.28)

Status update:

 * 198 packages remain to be built
 * 1187 fail to build with perl 5.28 *and* with perl 5.26 (ftbfs/)
 * 3 failed with internal compiler errors and are to be retried 
   (timeout/)
 * no packages that failed with perl 5.28 succeed with perl 5.26
 * The failure of linbet-ssleay-perl with openssl 1.1.1~~pre9 is fixed 
   in unstable (#895959). 

The rebuilding now proceeds with the packages that didn't finish 
rebuilding within 30 minutes (timeout.old/) and progress is 
understandably slow. The system shows somewhat unstable, with sporadic 
segmentation faults and internal compiler errors that disappear when 
the build is retried.

-- dam