Bug#806897: Embperl: Debian Experimental -> Debian Unstable/Testing? (was: Re: Bug#806897: marked as done (libembperl-perl: FTBFS with perl 5.22: 'PL_sv_objcount' undeclared))

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

From the changelog of the last libembperl-perl upload to Experimental:
>    * Add patch to take PL_sv_objcount removal in Perl 5.22 into
>      account. Fixes FTBFS with Perl 5.22. (Closes: #806897)
>    * Upload to experimental for now as it's not clear if all those "0+" to
>      enforce scalar/number context changes in the test suite are really
>      correct or if there's a further 5.22-related bug in Embperl causing
>      tons of empty values without the
>      perl5.22-compat-PL_sv_objcount-removal.patch.

As promised on IRC, I've now tested Embperl from Debian Experimental
in a real-life scenario: I've copied the whole setup of
http://gallery.noone.org/ (which still runs on Wheezy) and a small
bunch of pictures to a server running Stretch and the Embperl-part
worked out of the box: https://someone.noone.org/~abe/

Surely, it's not a very sophisticated application (e.g. no
Embperl::Object used or such), but it uses some of the unique Embperl
features like automatic iteration over arrays when being reference in
tables with the special $row variable and so on.

I only had to fine-tune the way how AppConfig (not Embperl-related:
https://metacpan.org/pod/AppConfig) is called. Seems as if the way I
use it now needs the ":argcount" tag when being "used". That's the
only change I had to make -- even though the Perl version was bumped
from 5.14 to 5.22. :-)

So from my point of view Embperl works fine despite I initially wasn't
sure about the above mentioned test suite changes. (Cc'ing upstream to
share this information.)

If there aren't further objections, I'd upload Embperl to Debian Unstable
soon-ish so it will part of the next Debian Stable release.

		Regards, Axel
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