Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-15 Thread Niko Tyni
(sorry about the delay) On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 01:38:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be writes: On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 11:39:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Build-Depends on perl (= 5.20) would make the transition smooth for users and the buildds. The only

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-01 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 07:05:03PM -0400, James McCoy wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:13:43PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: Normal build systems based on ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build do this automatically, but 62 packages either failed to build or lost their libperl linkage because of

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-01 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: Hi, we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to either /usr/lib/triplet/perl5 (containing the multiarch triplet) or /usr/lib/triplet/perl5/version (containing

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bastien+perldeb...@gmail.com writes: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to either /usr/lib/triplet/perl5 (containing the

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-01 Thread Niko Tyni
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 08:33:25PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to either /usr/lib/triplet/perl5 (containing the

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-01 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 22:08:07 +0300, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 08:33:25PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org wrote: we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed from the

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-01 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 11:39:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: How can we make the transition smooth ? I have a package.install file that contains a line /usr/lib/perl5/ Build-Depends on perl (= 5.20) would make the transition smooth for users and the buildds. The only drawback I can

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx k...@roeckx.be writes: On Sun, Jun 01, 2014 at 11:39:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Build-Depends on perl (= 5.20) would make the transition smooth for users and the buildds. The only drawback I can think of is that you'd have to revert that and the path change when backporting.

Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-05-31 Thread Niko Tyni
Hi, we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to either /usr/lib/triplet/perl5 (containing the multiarch triplet) or /usr/lib/triplet/perl5/version (containing additionally the current major Perl version.) There's a pending Perl

Re: Proposed mass bug filing: /usr/lib/perl5 is changing with Perl 5.20

2014-05-31 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 11:13:43PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: Normal build systems based on ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build do this automatically, but 62 packages either failed to build or lost their libperl linkage because of this in my test rebuilds of affected packages (reverse