On 20.07.2017 - 12:02:59, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 11:32:04AM +0200, Matthias Pitzl wrote: > > Good point. I checked the port for Data::Alias and I don't think there's an > > easy > > fix for this module. There are several bug tickets on CPAN about problems > > with > > newer Perl versions. > > Should we mark the p5-Data-Alias port broken in OpenBSD? > I would suggest so. The last update to the module is from end 2015. The bug reports about the problems with newer Perl version are also half a year old. I don't think the original author will fix these problems soon. And in the current state, Data::Alias is totally broken.
> > But, Data::Alias is only an optional dependency for Data::Visitor. > > I updated my diff with your additions and removed the dependency to > > Data::Alias. > > With this, the tests of Data::Visitor are ok again. > > But I have to pkg_delete p5-Data-Alias to make p5-Data-Visitor work. > So Data::Visitor would fail depending on the installed package set. > That is bad. > > Either we consider p5-Data-Alias broken beyond repair and remove > the port, or you patch p5-Data-Visitor that it never uses Data::Alias, > or both. I will make a small patch for Data::Visitor, disabling the loading of Data::Alias at all. -- Matthias
