Bug#626094: perl: debian/patches/fixes/processPL.diff is obsolete

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 09:57:42PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: perl
> Version: 5.12.3-6
> 
> We've been carrying the fixes/processPL divergence to ExtUtils::MakeMaker
> for five years because of #357264.
> 
> I finally looked into this; the issue was a change in EU::MM 6.30
> (shipped with Perl 5.8.8) that made the pdl package FTBFS.
> 
> The upstream ticket [rt.cpan.org #17224] is rather confused and got
> closed with no changes.
> 
> I think the problem was fixed for pdl 2.4.3 shortly afterwards with commit
> 
>  http://pdl.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=pdl/pdl;a=commitdiff;h=a8849de2ca393fd308c9cfcea6d626b37d9d8728
> 
> I've verified that
> 
> - pdl does    build                              with    our divergence (obviously :)
> - pdl does    build                              without our divergence
> - pdl doesn't build if the above fix is reverted without our divergence (#357264)
> - pdl does    build if the above fix is reverted with    our divergence
> 
> At some point I think we should revert the patch, possibly with some test
> rebuilds first to make sure no other package in the archive is relying
> on our divergence. (IMO this is a bit overly defensive but easy enough
> that it may be worth doing.)

Sounds good. I'll look at doing this once the 5.12 migration is
completed.

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