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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[posting only to bugreport - seems all others are subscribed]

Quoting Niko Tyni (2017-06-26 20:02:01)
> On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 09:57:14PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 09:19:43PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
>>> 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.
>
> Not that widespread. We have 12 clearly affected packages, and a 
> couple that I'm not sure of. See below. Logs can be found at
> 
>  http://perl.debian.net/rebuild-logs/experimental/report.html
> 
> (it's really a sid chroot, don't mind the "experimental" part.)
> 
>> If it's bad enough, we should probably patch around it temporarily in 
>> any case and drop it later in a more controlled fashion.
> 
> Given the low number of broken packages, it does look feasible to fix 
> those instead. I have no strong opinion atm. Others?
> 
> Affected packages:
> 
>  libtest-name-fromline-perl_0.13-1
>  libregexp-log-perl_0.06-3
>  libperl-critic-perl_1.126-1
>  libparser-mgc-perl_0.15-1
>  libnet-proxy-perl_0.12-6
>  libmoox-options-perl_4.023-1
>  libjson-webtoken-perl_0.10-2
>  libfurl-perl_3.08-2
>  libdevel-callparser-perl_0.002-3
>  libdevel-callchecker-perl_0.007-1
>  libcatmandu-sru-perl_0.039-1
>  libcatmandu-perl_1.0304-2

Hmm - 10 out of above 12 packages use CDBS.  Might be totally unrelated, 
but suspicious...

Also, only few of the CDBS-based packages were touched since 2015.

For starters (admittedly without really understanding the issue here), 
let my simply go through and modernize those packages.


 - Jonas

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