Bug#899021: libembperl-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.27, unmaintained upstream

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 08:23:54AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:24:59 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> 
> > Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > The upstream version of this package has not worked since 5.18, and we
> > > have had to apply several fixes in Debian since. The build has now
> > > broken again with Perl 5.27:
> > > 
> > > http://perl.debian.net/rebuild-logs/perl-5.27-throwaway/libembperl-perl_2.5.0-11/libembperl-perl_2.5.0-11_amd64-2018-05-18T08:09:28Z.build
> > 
> > Is there an APT repo where I can get all the build-dependencies
> > necessary to debug this?
> 
> Yup, at the same server. Details and key at the start page of
> http://perl.debian.net/

Indeed. Alternatively, I believe locally rebuilding

libhtml-parser-perl
libnet-ssleay-perl
libbsd-resource-perl
libapache2-mod-perl2

against 5.28 should suffice.

> gregor, hoping that all build-deps for _this_ package are included
>         but so far this has worked flawlessly for me

The system is pretty well automated nowadays (thanks Dom!) and shouldn't
lag behind sid for more than half a day at most.
-- 
Niko