rakudo permanent tracker and transition

M. Zhou lumin at debian.org
Mon Feb 7 18:12:08 GMT 2022


Now that every issue seems to have been fixed. I've uploaded
the fixes (changing arch from all to any) to raku* packages
as well. Transition tracker all green now.

The next time when a raku-api-* bump is needed, we should be
able to do it automatically with a regular transition slot.

On Sat, 2022-02-05 at 20:02 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 05-02-2022 15:54, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> > On Thursday, 3 February 2022 09:16:54 CET Paul Gevers wrote:
> > > I'm slightly surprised that perl6-readline isn't picked up by the
> > > tracker. We'll need to check why that is.
> > 
> > I've a possible explanation.
> 
> Thanks for thinking along.
> 
> > perl6-readline depends field is:
> > 
> >   Depends: libreadline8, raku-api-2021.09
> > 
> > rakudo tracker is set with:
> > 
> >   Affected: .depends ~ /^raku-api-/
> > 
> > This fails if the regexp is applied to the *whole* Depends field
> > value because
> > the regexp is anchored to the beginning of the string.
> 
> True, that's why I was pretty sure that ben only considers individual
> entries. But I just checked the ben documentation [1] and believe you
> are right. Particularly this:
> """
> Packages fields may contain a list of values comma-separated. Ben
> splits 
> the list before looking with "…​" for a match.
> """
> which suggest that doesn't apply to regular expressions and I see
> loads 
> of (^|\s) in other ben files.
> 
> Paul
> 
> [1] https://debian.pages.debian.net/ben/#_query_language





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