Bug#578547: libdata-alias-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.12: 'Nullsv' undeclared

[Niko Tyni]

clone 578547 -1
retitle -1 libdata-visitor-perl: move away from libdata-alias-perl ?
reassign -1 libdata-visitor-perl 0.27-1  
forwarded -1 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57410
user debian-perl at lists.debian.org
usertags -1 perl-5.12-transition
thanks

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:57:30PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> The good news is that the only direct reverse dependency,
> libdata-visitor-perl, only uses Data::Alias::deref(), which works fine
> with 5.12. Furthermore, it's really a soft dependency and the relevant
> tests are skipped if Data::Alias is not installed.
> 
> This gives us a few new options, assuming libdata-alias-perl doesn't
> get fixed in time (or at all):
> 
> A: disable the test suite in libdata-alias-perl and ship a package
>    that works just 'well enough'
> 
> B: remove libdata-alias-perl from the archive: either
>   B1. remove the libdata-visitor-perl dependency on libdata-alias-perl
>     and hope that no libdata-visitor-perl reverse dependencies need
>     the removed functionality
>  OR
>   B2. split Data::Alias::deref() out into a new package and make
>     libdata-visitor-perl use that.
>  OR
>   B3. find another dereferencing implementation and make
>     libdata-visitor-perl use that.
> 
> B2 or B3 are the only options that look "right" to me.
> 
> Obviously upstream should be involved.

I've filed [rt.cpan.org #57410] on Data-Visitor about this and updated the Data-Alias
ticket [rt.cpan.org #36165].
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org