perl 5.10 includes several modules that have util now been packaged
separately. perl/perl-modules Provide/Conflict/Replace with appropriate
versions of these packages, so most of these packages could be removed.
A few need dependency changes in other packages first. A few of these
packages are of a newer version than the version included in perl, and
in some cases might be worth keeping around for the new version.

Bastian Blank debian.org>
liblocale-maketext-simple-perl
(svk has a versioned dependency on it)

Jay Bonci debian.org>
libpod-escapes-perl
(perl-modules contains but is missing a provides for this)

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:

This seems to be an incompatability introduced in perl 5.10.
pristine-tar creates a temp directory with File::Temp and chdirs into
it. At exit, File::Temp calls rmtree to delete the temp directory. After
deleting the directory, rmtree tries to chdir back to that location so
as to not "leave the client code in an unexpected directory". But it's
deleted the directory, so of course this fails!

Simple test case:

After inn2 has been automatically rebuilt with the new perl it segfaults
on start. Probably inn has the same problem, but I have not yet been
able to upgrade perl on my system.
Does anybody have any hints about where I should start looking?
See #479244 for the few details.

--
ciao,
Marco

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: ITP: libautobox-perl -- Allows calling methods on builtin Perl
types
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 19:13:54 +0100
From: Antony Gelberg wayforth.co.uk>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System bugs.debian.org>

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Antony Gelberg wayforth.co.uk>

* Package name : libautobox-perl
Version : 2.23
Upstream Author : chocolateboy email.com>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/autobox/
* License : GPL / Artistic
Programming Lang: Perl
Description : Allows calling methods on builtin Perl types

Hi,

I'd like to see various Perl modules in Debian. After discussions on
IRC, I have decided to DIY. I have pasted the list I'm interested at
the bottom of this email.

I have already raised some ITPs, 479198, 479203, 479206. I will CC this
list on the subsequent ones that I raise. I have uploaded a couple of
packages to mentors, but I am advised that it might be better to give my
alioth username for svn access. It's antgel-guest.

Please let me know what I can do, to get my packages assessed, and
ultimately, uploaded.

Thanks,

Antony

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the libapache-db-perl package.

Upstream has updated for 5.10 thanks to a patch from Niko Tyni. You
may adopt the package now and upload the new upstream version yourself,
or if no one has yet adopted the package when unstable settles down,
I'll upload the new upstream version before orphaning.

The package description is:
Perl ships with a very useful interactive debugger, however, it does not run
"out-of-the-box" in the Apache/mod_perl environment. Apache::DB makes a few
adjustments so the two will cooperate.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the libb-size-perl package.

Upstream has not yet updated for Perl 5.10, so the adopter will probably
have to patch locally in the short term.

The package description is:
The B::Size and B::TerseSize modules attempt to measure the size of Perl op
codes. The output of B::TerseSize is similar to that of B::Terse, but includes
the size of each OP in the tree and the PADLIST (subroutine lexical
variables). The module can be run just as other compiler backends or used via
Apache::Status (version 2.02 and higher).
.
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Measuring_the_Memory_Usage_of_Subroutines

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

I've been packaging WebGUI [1] for personal use for over two years now.
A lot of its dependencies were missing in Debian, so I packaged them and
now are part of Debian's Perl Group. After all of those dependencies got
in, I sent an ITP [2] and started polishing the package with the help of
dam and gregoa, and ocasional pointers by gwolf.

I believe the package is ready to go into Debian, so I'm asking for a
sponsor to check it and upload. WebGUI is a _big_ package, you can find
my packages in

http://itverx.com.ve/debian/pool/main/w/webgui/

Thanks in advance.

[1] http://www.webgui.org
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471697
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Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course.
If you can't aptitude it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist.
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Hi,

would you please take over maintenance of pperl? I've fixed a
RC-but-not-marked-as-such bug which prevented it from working on 64-bit
architectures, and the package should be in relatively good shape again.
The test suite also passes when it's compiled with Perl 5.10, and it's
now run on package built.

Thanks,
Florian

After the last bug report (libjavascript-perl) because a package
fails to build twice (Makefile.PL being newer than Makefile after
unpatch) I looked through all our packages -- not by rebuilding all
of them but just by grepping for Makefile.PL in
trunk/*/debian/patches/* and then checking debian/rules and running
debuild twice.

Building twice in a row is a release goal:
http://release.debian.org/lenny/goals.txt