Bug#865563: libcatmandu-sru-perl FTBFS: test failures

[Niko Tyni]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 09:19:43PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 07:43:52PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > So it looks like we really need PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC, and we might
> > want to insert it unconditionally manually where we did prior to the
> > accidental removal in the last upload.

> It does rather look like a mistaken attempt to solve this problem, and
> I agree that the logic is a bit odd, but this seems like the patch
> likely to get accepted upstream; can you send this patch to the module
> author?
> 
> I feel like we should try and not diverge further from upstream; that
> seems almost guaranteed to end up with similar issues later.

FWIW, I've scheduled a test rebuild of all the 679 libmodule-build-perl
reverse build dependencies on perl.debian.net to get a feeling of
how widespread this issue actually is.

If it's bad enough, we should probably patch around it temporarily
in any case and drop it later in a more controlled fashion.

I'll follow up with an update once we have results.
-- 
Niko