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 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

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

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx 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. > I'm

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 drawba

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 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 wrote: > > > we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed > > > from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to e

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 wrote: > > we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed > > from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to either /usr/lib//perl5 > > (containing the multiarch triplet)

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

2014-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastien ROUCARIES writes: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Niko Tyni wrote: >> we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed >> from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to either /usr/lib//perl5 >> (containing the multiarch triplet) or >> /usr/lib//perl5/ (containing additio

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 wrote: > Hi, > > we're changing the directory where binary Perl modules are installed > from the traditional /usr/lib/perl5 to either /usr/lib//perl5 > (containing the multiarch triplet) or /usr/lib//perl5/ > (containing additionally the current major Pe

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 beca

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 depen

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//perl5 (containing the multiarch triplet) or /usr/lib//perl5/ (containing additionally the current major Perl version.) There's a pending Perl policy change in #748380