severity 129034 important thanks Hi Brendan,
This bug seems to be biting us in testing rather frequently these days. Even though there should not have been any ABI changes since version 5.8.7-3, we've gone through four perl uploads since then, each of which has failed to build on one or more architectures for various reasons. I agree with Colin that there really needs to be some mechanism by which perl can *declare* when the last time its XS ABI changed, so that we don't end up with countless packages wedged behind what should have been a minor perl update. (Frustration of the week: arm was ignored for testing propagation for not keeping up, 5.8.7-6 was allowed into testing as a result, 5.8.7-7 was uploaded shortly thereafter and FTBFS on two unrelated architectures, causing blockage again... hppa should be a trivial rebuild with the new 2.6 kernel, mips less so...) I appreciate that you do try to get perl built on all archs as quickly as possible, but I think a more defensive design is called for here. Not reassigning to policy, because I don't think this is a policy problem until we have some sort of an agreement that perl will provide an alternate mechanism for packages to use, and what that mechanism should look like. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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