Bug#904005: perl: FTBFS gdbm/experimental

[Niko Tyni]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 11:38:18PM +0300, KAction at gnu.org wrote:
> [2018-07-19 14:28] Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org>
> > > Dear Maintainer,
> > >
> > > Your package test suite fails with libgdbm6 from experimental.
> > > Could you please fix it? Failed sbuild log is attached.
> > Thanks for the report. This is also [perl #133295]. Apparently
> > gdbm has fixed the crash that this test checks for, but doesn't
> > report errors properly either.
> >
> > The issue seems somewhat tricky with improvements suggested on
> > both the gdbm and perl side.
> >
> >  https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133295
> >
> >  https://puszcza.gnu.org.ua/bugs/index.php?399
> >
> >  http://git.gnu.org.ua/cgit/gdbm.git/commit/?id=030e685eb9df82f63d73a1bf206da84b7aa52374
> 
> 
> > I guess that last gdbm fix can't be easily cherry-picked as it changes
> > the interface?
> 
> Sorry, failed to parse.

Rephrasing: do you think you can apply the gdbm fix to the package in
experimental?  Or do you have other suggestions about how to handle this?
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org