Bug#624460: libextutils-cbuilder-perl: shouldn't override $Config{ccflags} with $ENV{CFLAGS}

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Fri Apr 29 12:00:51 UTC 2011


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 07:55:27AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Thanks. However, on second thought, all those modules are going to be
> binNMU'd for the upcoming Perl 5.12 transition anyway. So, assuming
> that's really happening in a month or so, it's probably enough unless
> somebody reports actual breakage.

Good point. In fact, the release team has now approved the transition,
so we should probably get this fixed shortly. I plan to upload the fix
for this tomorrow.

> It's also possible that this affects some packages in squeeze, as the
> bug was introduced in 2010-12-11. Although the bug itself never reached
> squeeze, some packages may have been built with the bug in unstable and
> then transitioned to testing. I expect the number of those to be just
> a handful at most because of the late stage of the freeze.

*nod*

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