Debug package request for libcoro-perl

[Martin Pritchard]

Hi Axel,

Thanks for the bug links. I already spoke with the Coro maintainer last
week and the latest release now includes a fix for the issue I was having.

It would be a shame to see it dropped.

Thanks for your help,

On 19 October 2015 at 12:46, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
> Martin Pritchard wrote:
> > Recently I have been trying to diagnose a segfault issue in my Coro
> program
>
> Probably related to https://bugs.debian.org/679447
>
> > and found that having the debug symbols for libcoro-perl was useful to
> help
> > identify whether the underlying issue was directly in my code or Coro
> > itself. I ended up building a 'libcoro-perl-dbg' package to do this and
> > wondered whether it would be possible to get a Coro debug package
> included
> > in Debian to help with issues like this in the future?
>
> The current plan of the Debian Perl Team is to drop libcoro-perl from
> Debian unstable and any future stable releases because its upstream
> author refuses to support newer Perl versions and it indeed fails to
> build from source with Perl 5.22 from Debian Experimental.
>
> See https://bugs.debian.org/787500 for the background and some
> discussion about that decision.
>
>                 Regards, Axel
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