Bug#667738: libhttp-daemon-perl: HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn is IPv4 only

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:49:46 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:56:28 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> > On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 19:28:57 +0100, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> > > I opened up a MR on salsa[1] to include the patches from upstream's bug
> > > tracker that enable IPv6 support by switching to IO::Socket::IP - it
> > > would be great if somebody can take a look at them and upload the -2
> > > package ;)
> > Thanks for the merge request!
> > Merge and uploaded.
> > I hope you can also help in case this breaks reverse dependencies :)
> So this broke the test suites of 3 reverse dependencies:

Thanks to Fabian's efforts and help all 3 are fixed by now.

> While it should be possible to fix the three packages in general, I
> see 2 problems:
> - other breakage this might cause (in packages without autopkgtests
>   or in local/third-party code)
> - we're running out of time for buster (last upload possibility today
>   or maybe tomorrow)
> 
> At the beginning of a release cycle I'd be happy to work from here
> and fix what we see and what might come up, but I think now is a bad
> point of time for this approach.
> 
> So I think we should revert the change (i.e. disable the patches),
> and reopen he bug, and I'll do that tonight unless other ideas/fixes
> come up in the next hours.

I guess we can wait and see if anything else pops up or not; if not
than all is fine, if we see more troubles, disabling the patches
should still be possible during the freeze.


Cheers,
gregor

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