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libmethod-signatures-perl: depends on libdata-alias-perl, broken with Perl 5.24 #128

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gregoa opened this issue Aug 19, 2016 · 0 comments

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gregoa commented Aug 19, 2016

We have the following bug reported to the Debian package of
Method-Signatures (https://bugs.debian.org/834795):

It doesn't seem to be a bug in the packaging, so you may want to take
a look. Thanks!

(Data::Alias is optional but still �)

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Package: libmethod-signatures-perl
Version: 20160315-1
Severity: important
User: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
Usertags: perl-5.24-transition

This package depends and/or build-depends on libdata-alias-perl, which
breaks with Perl 5.24 (currently in experimental.)  See #825011.

It looks like we will have to drop libdata-alias-perl from stretch to
get Perl 5.24 in, so please look at dropping the dependency one way or
another.

In some cases the 'refaliasing' feature in Perl >= 5.22 may be a
replacement; quoting Data::Alias documentation:

       Perl 5.22 added some support for aliasing to the Perl core.  It has
       a different syntax, and a different set of operations, from that
       supplied by this module; see "Assigning to References" in perlref.
       The core's aliasing facilities are implemented more robustly than
       this module and are better supported.  If you can rely on having
       a sufficiently recent Perl version, you should prefer to use the
       core facility rather than use this module.  If you are already
       using this module and are now using a sufficiently recent Perl,
       you should attempt to migrate to the core facility.

-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org


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Thanks for considering,
gregor herrmann,
Debian Perl Group

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