Bug#719578: Patch for a cdk-perl-20130717 build failure with Perl 5.18

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 08:24:44PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:23:54PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Hi Thomas,
> > 
> > recent changes in cdk-perl-20130717 broke the build again with
> > newer versions of ExtUtils::ParseXS, including the one
> > bundled with Perl 5.18.
> 
> thanks (I'd have found this directly, but haven't found a way to get
> 5.18 other than compiling it myself - it seems that Debian/experimental
> skipped a step between 5.14 and 5.18).

Debian experimental did have 5.16 at one point, and 5.18 is now in Debian
experimental. In any case, the main practical problem with testing is the
large number of other perl XS module packages which also need to be
rebuilt (over 300 in the archive). This has been done for i386 and the
results are at

http://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/test/perl-5.18.0/

(only suitable for a dedicated test system really).
Apologies that this has been less than useful for package maintainers
so far.

Cheers,
Dominic.