Bug#579450: libdevice-cdio-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.12.0-1: 64-bit integers

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:58:38AM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Dominic Hargreaves, Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:39:45PM +0100 |=-
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:33:37PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:37:40 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > This very probably happens because 5.12.0-1 is configured with -Duse64bitint.
> > > > The last upstream release of this module was in 2006, and there hasn't
> > > > been any response here or on the upstream bug report[1]. The package has
> > > > no reverse dependencies and a low popcon count. I'm included to suggest
> > > > that we remove this package unless someone is willing to provide a patch.
> > > 
> > > Sounds reasonable.
> > 
> > Okay. I'll file a bug for removal at the same time, or shortly after
> > increasing the severity when perl 5.12 hits unstable.
> 
> How about orphaning? People may still find the package useful despite 
> the low popcon "index". 
> (http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/the_popcon_problem)

I was going to reply to this by saying that the package won't be of
use to anyone if it can't be rebuilt; but in fact this problem only
appears (out of i386 and amd64) on i386, so you're right that it 
probably is a bit premature to be removing the package.

As for orphaning, I'm not sure about this. I'd have thought that
orphaning the package from the Debian perl group is probably going to
make it even less likely that the package will get fixed in Debian.

Dominic.

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