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

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