Bug#494677: libapache2-mod-perl2: FTBFS: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libcgi-pm-perl (>= 3.33)

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 03:10:17PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: libapache2-mod-perl2
> Version: 2.0.4-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> As explained in 
> 
>  http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2008/08/msg00557.html
> 
> 2.0.4-2 is failing on all autobuilders because of an sbuild bug.
> We'll have to remove the libcgi-pm-perl build-dependency and come up
> with something else for now.
> 
> I think the next best thing is to remove the TMPDIR setting in
> t/conf/extra.conf.in . This means the temporary files won't stay in the
> build directory, but that's what /tmp is for.

Update: as agreed with the release team, I'm going to fix the CGI.pm bug
in perl-modules (filed as #494679) for lenny. 

Assuming it'll be in 5.10.0-14, I think the best fix is to change the
build-dependencies at that point to something like

 Build-Depends: perl-modules (>= 5.10.0-14) | libcgi-pm-perl (>= 3.33)

so as to be nice to backporters too.

It will take at least a week to get the fix in unstable, as we
want 5.10.0-13 in testing first. We could either let the unbuildable
libapache2-mod-perl2/2.0.4-2 stay in sid until then, or upload an
intermediate version in between.
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org