Bug#719082: libmodule-install-perl: Module::Install::Makefile requires a newer version of EU:MM than is available

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 08:14:34 -0400, James McCoy wrote:

> Package: libmodule-install-perl
> Version: 1.06-1
> Severity: important
> 
> $ fgrep 6.59 /usr/share/perl5/Module/Install/*.pm
> /usr/share/perl5/Module/Install/Makefile.pm:            # Instead, #toolchain 
> suggests we use 6.59 which is the most
> /usr/share/perl5/Module/Install/Makefile.pm:            
> $self->build_requires(     'ExtUtils::MakeMaker' => 6.59 );
> /usr/share/perl5/Module/Install/Makefile.pm:            
> $self->configure_requires( 'ExtUtils::MakeMaker' => 6.59 );
> 
> $ perl -MExtUtils::MakeMaker -M5.01 -e 'say ExtUtils::MakeMaker->VERSION; say 
> $INC{"ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm"}'
> 6.57_05
> /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm

Right, there are quite a few CPAN distributions that declare a
dependency on a newer EUMM. But so far I haven't seen any problems in
the wild with that's in our packages 5.14 perl(-modules).

Did you experience any problem in pratice?

Cheers,
gregor

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