On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:09:09AM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > >On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Niko Tyni wrote: > >> I run a few greps on debian/rules of the source packages of all the > >> binary packages matching '-perl' in unstable. Results: at least 398 > >> arch:all and 38 arch:any packages apparently do an unconditional rmdir > >> for the empty directory.
Update: three weeks after my mass bug filing 70% of the 'arch:all rmdir failed' (aka. perl-5.10-ftbfs-rmdir on [1]) bugs have been fixed. There are still 119 of them left, though. Kudos particularly to Gregor and the other hard-working pkg-perl folks for the almost endless stream of closed bugs :) Additionally, there are 13 arch:all packages that fail to build for other reasons ('perl-5.10-ftbfs' on [1]), mainly due to test suite failures. Two of them are still using pseudo hashes.. > I'm keen to get 5.10 into Lenny, since the length of our stable release > cycles otherwise means that we'll be stuck with 5.8 for quite a while. > > My initial thought was to set up a staging area, although was told that > with the binNMU mechanism it should no longer be necessary... This > issue with rmdir however would appear to have torpedoed that plan. Out of the 310 arch:any packages that need to be binNMU'd, 36 currently fail to build with Perl 5.10 (most of 'perl-5.10-transition' on [1]). These take 8 more with them because their build dependencies include libxml-parser-perl (#458144) or libpadwalker-perl (#463546) from the first set. 21 of the 36 failures are due to the 'rmdir issue'. Note that this doesn't take into account 'regular' FTBFS issues on current sid, I haven't usertagged those. Anyway, it looks like the binNMU plan is still good, and a patch/NMU campaign of the relatively few 'perl-5.10-transition' bugs on [1] would make it even better. Any takers? > Given the mechanical nature of the fix required, I am still inclined to > uploading to unstable before the soft freeze in a week or so. Remember, > it's called "unstable" for a reason, people. It's been more than three weeks now. Any news on the schedule? [1] usertag overview linked from the end of http://wiki.debian.org/Perl5.10Transition Cheers, -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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