Perl 5.12 repository pushed to Alioth

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:35:13PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> The next aim is to build unofficial binNMUs of (most of?) the 409 arch:any
> packages in
> 
>  http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/perl-5.10-transition/perlapi.out?view=markup
> 
> and put them available in a public personal repository somewhere. After that 
> it's possible to do test rebuilds of the 2000 or so arch:all packages
> matching /perl/ and see how much breaks. 

Update: I've now done all the rebuilds, quoting the report I just sent to p5p:

   I tried to rebuild ~2150 Perl related packages from the Debian 'unstable'
   suite: those with names matching /perl/ or linking against libperl.
   
   There were about 80 build failures, and 110 packages could not be
   tested because their build dependencies could not be installed [1].
   The remaining 1950 packages built fine.
   
   About 60 failures were Perl 5.12 regressions. Six of those are already
   fixed in newer module versions on CPAN.
   
   35 failed because of Perl::MinimumVersion breaking ([rt.cpan.org #56081]).
   I think these tests are mostly run only when AUTOMATED_TESTING is set,
   so they probably don't show up on the CPAN tester reports.

I haven't put the arch:any binNMUs anywhere on the web yet as I'm not
sure if a ~300M repository is too big for people.debian.org. Probably
I'm just too shy.

> Somewhere in between an upload to experimental would be a good thing to
> see if the beast builds on all platforms and provide a common baseline
> package.

Did this today, but it needs to pass NEW first.

> As is probably obvious all of this is going to take a while, but it's
> mostly scriptable. I think some results can be expected in a week or so,
> depending on how soon I get this running.

Heh, it's been a week today :)
-- 
Niko