Bug#722332: libcommon-sense-perl: common::sense runs into trouble with Perl 5.18, eg. no say().

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 16:23:52 +0200, Hagen Fuchs wrote:

> > [package tracking system and git repository]
> I see, thanks!

Sorry for not mentioning this in my first reply.
 
> > Wondering if we should clone it with lowered severity for a more
> > elegant fix. Comments?
> Executive Sum.: Upstream is cleared of any wrongdoing, common::sense
> needs to be built for every Perl version anew.

Cool, thanks for your further investigations!
 
> Does that make any ... No, no cheap pun today.

:)
 
> That's a bit of a bummer for the package's progression through
> unstable-testing-stable, though, isn't it?  Or is that only a problem in
> my mind?

This just means that the package has to be rebuilt (with a binNMU -
binary non-maintainer upload) on each new perl upload; due to my
change it will have a dependency on the exact perl version it is
built against. - Axel has already added a note to
https://wiki.debian.org/PerlMaintenance about the binNMU need.

Commit:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/packages/libcommon-sense-perl.git;a=commitdiff;h=9e37b7bf205dbce39b42bbdf661cd29d7c0e7131

And this leads to:
 Depends: perl (>= 5.18.1), perl (<< 5.18.2~)


Cheers,
gregor
 

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