On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 10:02:37PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:10:04AM +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > > Source: perl > > > Version: 5.24.1-4 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > Hello, with the new zlib > 1.2.9 the testsuite fails, > > > (e.g. you can look at Ubuntu build failures). > > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/perl/5.24.1-2 > > > > > > I found the test failures on rt.cpan.org and I applied to Ubuntu the > > > proposed > > > patches: > > > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120134 > > > https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119762 > > > Just to be clear, this is in Compress-Raw-Zlib that has already > > (according to https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=119762) > > been fixed in 2.74, which is already in blead and perl 5.26 (which is > > in experimental). > > The Ubuntu patches and the second bug also reference IO-Compress, not > sure if that's upstream yet.
My reading is that no change in IO-Compress was needed once Compress-Raw-Zlib was fixed. And the CPAN bug was resolved with no code change in IO-Compress. > > I'm not convinced that we need to spend time on fixing this for 5.24 > > given where we are in the release cycle, but this will depend on > > when the zlib maintainer (Cced) plans to update to a newer zlib. > > Agreed.