Bug#867164: perl: base.pm change causes other packages to FTBFS

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 12:53:01PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> It was discovered that the security fix from last summer caused various
> packages to FTBFS during unrelated QA work:
> 
>     request-tracker4_4.2.8-3+deb8u1
>     libgraph-writer-dsm-perl_0.006-1
>     libclass-c3-xs-perl_0.13-2
>     libclass-c3-perl_0.26-1
>     libbio-das-lite-perl_2.04-1.1
> 
> This was caused by an early version of a security fix in base.pm
> which was not released by upstream because of these compatibility problems.
> 
> In stretch/sid these packages have been patched to work around the problem;
> it was an oversight that similar workarounds didn't get made in jessie.
> 
> Now that there is an improved patch available from upstream which fixes
> this regression (currently in the 5.24.2-RC1 and 5.22.4-RC1 releases) we
> should apply this in jessie and (for completeness) stretch point releases,
> as well as sid.

This is being tracked for jessie as release team bug #864745.

Dominic.