Bug#711574: libdbix-dbschema-perl: tables returned in hash order with perl 5.18

[Damyan Ivanov]

Control: severity -1 important

-=| Dominic Hargreaves, 08.06.2013 00:13:29 +0100 |=-
> Source: libdbix-dbschema-perl
> Version: 0.40-3
> Severity: important
> User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.18-transition
> Tags: sid jessie
> Forwarded: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=83035
> Affects: libjifty-dbi-perl
> 
> This package causes a FTBFS in libjifty-dbi-perl with perl 5.18 from
> experimental (in a clean sbuild session). As per the upstream bug report:
> 
> "This causes variations in returned schemas when running under perl 5.17.6, 
> which randomizes the hash-key ordering much more aggressively.  Just like 
> DBIx::DBSchema::Table->Columns, the DBIx::DBSchema->Tables method 
> shouldn't rely on the keys() built-in to return the list of tables.  At 
> the very least, it should get a sort() wrapped around it.  Ideally the 
> tables would be sorted by the order in which they were added, like 
> columns, but that requires a little more change."

I have uploaded a new upstream release of libjifty-dbi-perl, which 
compensates for the lack of ordering in the returned data.

I wonder how severe this bug is now, and if it is a bug at all, or 
just like the SQL databases, in absence of explicit ordering, data may 
be returned in arbitrary order.

Lowering severity for now.