Re: Upgrade troubles with Perl

2014-05-14 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:33:58AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Second, there's a regression in the handling of in-memory file handle. > Broke my code when giving it a first try on jessie. And I am still > *very* upset why #747363 should be anything below RC. I find arguments about bug severit

Re: Upgrade troubles with Perl

2014-05-14 Thread Christoph Biedl
Paul Wise wrote... > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > In 5.18, upstream decided to discourage usage of smart matches and > > given..when after these have existed since 5.10 (or: more than six > > years) by marking them as experimental, and did this in a very harsh > >

Re: Upgrade troubles with Perl

2014-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > In 5.18, upstream decided to discourage usage of smart matches and > given..when after these have existed since 5.10 (or: more than six > years) by marking them as experimental, and did this in a very harsh > way. This will drive me away fr

Re: Upgrade troubles with Perl

2014-05-13 Thread Christoph Biedl
gregor herrmann wrote... > Which kind of problems did you see with new Perl versions (I could > imagine incompatible old third-party software), and is there > something the Debian perl maintainers and/or the Debian Perl Group > can do to improve the situation? At first I was about to say those wh

Upgrade troubles with Perl (was: systemd-fsck?)

2014-05-13 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 13 May 2014 18:57:03 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I could not agree more. In our enterprise environment, I have no > expectation at all that systemd will cause us significant trouble on > upgrades. Our troubles have centered things like grub1 to grub2 or, > indeed, new PHP and Perl vers