[adding redhat-cluster and lvm maintainers to thread. This discussion is about trying to start the perl 5.22 transition, which has been 'about to happen' since August - so obviously those of us who care about that are quite keen to see it happen sooner rather than later]
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 11:14:20PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > On 13/12/15 13:43, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > As I already mentioned, redhat-cluster currently FTBFS, and has done > > since August, so I don't think we should block on that. > > We can't remove it from testing as lvm2 depends on it, so this really is a > blocker. Ah, this is unfortunate (and it's especially unfortunate that we didn't spot this blocking back in August..). It doesn't look like fixing those[1] FTBFS bugs is easy, especially given that the redhat-cluster package is quite a way behind where upstream are (and upstream have completely reorganised these packages (as best I can tell as someone who is not at all familiar with them). >From [2] it appears that work is underway to fix all this, by including libdlm as a separate package. Presumably at this point lvm2 would not depend on redhat-cluster and it could be removed from testing? As a more immediate fix - can the HA team comment on whether libccs-perl has any value? If not then perhaps that should just be dropped from the redhat-cluster package ASAP (its description[3], not to mention its popcon of 3, implies it could be dropped without grave consequence). Cheers, Dominic. [1] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795127>, <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804590> [2] <https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-ha-maintainers/2015-December/004615.html> [3] <https://packages.debian.org/unstable/libccs-perl>