Bug#750240: libapache2-mod-perl2: FTBFS with perl 5.20

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 15/07/14 20:42, Niko Tyni wrote:
> tag 750240 patch
> thanks
> 
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 10:46:20PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
>> -=| Damyan Ivanov, 03.06.2014 21:42:14 +0300 |=-
>>> I tried to find the reason and failed. Documenting what I did in the 
>>> hope that it helps in the future.
> 
>> Applying the following patch makes the test pass:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> So it seems with perl 5.20 $r->args is undefined if there is no query 
>> string. Strange.
>>
>> With the above two patches the test suite completes. There are 
>> problems in the install phase because of usr/lib/perl5 no longer 
>> existing, but that should be trivial to fix.
> 
> Those patches were also included upstream. I'm attaching annotated
> patches for them. I was able to get 2.0.8+httpd24-r1449661-7
> + these patches build with Perl 5.20. Yay!
> 
> I think this is the last major obstacle to the Perl 5.20 transition, we
> have patches for the rest. I'm only wondering if 2.0.8+httpd24-r1449661-7
> should transition to testing first to help the s390x-perlapi-5.18.2d
> transition. 
> 
> Emilio: any preference?

I'd like it to migrate first. I have added a hint, if all goes well it will
migrate in 1.5 hours.

Emilio