Bug#830476: jessie RC bugs in perl packages

[Julien Cristau]

Control: tag 783610 jessie-ignore
Control: severity 830476 normal

On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 13:21:12 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> I'm adding the release team to the Cc for the 3 bugs that are
> candidates for jessie-ignore.
> 
> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:24:15PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 May 2017 12:53:10 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > 
> > > > Could you prepare jessue-pu updates for them?
> > > I'm starting to look at them right now at the pkg-perl sprint.
> > > Thanks for providing this list!
> 
> Thanks a lot for working on them!
> 
> Comments on some items:
> 
> >...
> > > #784845 libdevel-gdb-perl: FTBFS: t/expect.t #8 sometimes fails
> > 
> > This is an occasional test failure, and I'm not convinced that applying the
> > change from testing/unstable (disabling one test) actually helps any user in
> > stable.
> >...
> 
> Release team, if appropriate please mark jessie-ignore.
> 
We should fix it if there's ever a reason to update the package in
jessie, so I'll leave this one as-is.

> >...
> > > #517472 libxml-libxml-perl: Missing versioned dependency on libxml2 - Causes runtime warnings
> > 
> > I think that's not serious for jessie.
> > Originally this was an annoying warning (which it probably still is in
> > jessie), and we bumped the severity later when packages failed to build
> > because of it: #796354 - libimage-info-perl, and #796385 - request-tracker4.
> > I just rebuilt libimage-info-perl in a jessie chroot without any problems,
> > therefore I'd rather not update libxml-libxml-perl in jessie.
> > (Maybe we should lower the severity now? Or tag is stretch+sid)
> >...
> 
> This shouldn't be a problem in a pure jessie.
> 
> It only warns about older versions, so the case it would fix in jessie 
> would be warnings when using the jessie libxml-libxml-perl with the
> wheezy libxml2 (which seems permitted by the dependencies).
> 
> The change to libxml-libxml-perl would be small, but if there are no 
> reported problems during wheezy -> jessie upgrades I agree that this
> is not necessary.
> 
> Release team, if appropriate please mark jessie-ignore.
> 
OK, I guess...

> >...
> > > #830476 libpoe-component-client-http-perl: accesses the internet during build
> > 
> > I think there is no clear consensus that pure DNS queries are really a
> > policy violation. As this change wouldn't provide any practical advantage,
> > I'd rather ignore it for stable.
> >...
> 
> Release team, if appropriate please mark jessie-ignore.
>  
Downgrading.  I don't believe this should be RC.

Cheers,
Julien