Features/perl5.12

Perl 5.12

Summary

Perl 5.12 brings a lot of changes. Details about them could be found at perl [delta]

Owner

• Name: Marcela Mašláňová
• email: <mmaslano@redhat.com>

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 14
• Last updated: 2010-06-01
• Percentage of completion: 50%

Completed items

• rewritten spec for perl 5.12
• rebuild of almost all perl modules

Items still to be done - perl modules

perl-Archive-RPM - depend on missing package
perl-Catalyst-Controller-BindLex
perl-Config-Model-CursesUI	missing 598362, ignore
perl-Data-Alias	broken, can't be fix easily, according repoquery no dependencies-> remove?
perl-DateTime-Format-Strptime	update this and perl-DateTime bundle
perl-DBI-Dumper	buggy, last release in 2006 -> remove?
perl-Devel-LexAlias	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2221782&name=build.log
perl-Fedora-Bugzilla
perl-forks
perl-GDGraph3d
perl-GSSAPI
perl-HTTP-Server-Simple-Mason
perl-IO-Compress-Bzip2	package is obsoleted by perl-IO-Compress
perl-MasonX-Request-WithApacheSession
perl-MooseX-Params-Validate
perl-Net-GitHub
perl-Olson-Abbreviations
perl-Padre - will be updated by ppisar	Bug #598539
perl-PDL
perl-PDL-Graphics-PLplot
perl-POE-Component-Client-HTTP
perl-POE-Component-Server-Bayeux
perl-POE-Component-Server-SimpleHTTP
perl-POE-Component-Server-SOAP
perl-POE-Component-Server-XMLRPC
perl-Pugs-Compiler-Rule	One test unit fails because of different Data::Dumper indentation. The strange thing is it should fail even on localhost with perl-5.10.1. Data::Dumper indents local and package (AST) structure in different way. I don't know how is it possible. However it does not fail.
perl-SVG-Parser	Done
perl-SVN-Mirror	RT#51088 broken with svn >= 1.6; upstream seems unresponsive
perl-Test-AutoBuild
perl-Test-WWW-Selenium	Done
perl-WebService-Validator-CSS-W3C	Done
perl-YAML-LibYAML	Done

Items still to be done - other packages

gnumeric	not perl issue - already FTBFS http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2222760&name=build.log
grepmail	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2222816&name=build.log
krazy2	not perl issue - already FTBFS http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2223005&name=build.log
lcgdm	not perl issue, will be fixed by maintainer
ocaml-perl4caml	Already fixed upstream
virt-v2v	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2224478&name=build.log
Zim	http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=2224567&name=build.log
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Detailed Description

Perl releases will be now every year and updates during year will be containing mainly bug fixes. The release 5.12.1 should be stable release.

Benefit to Fedora

Fedora as bleeding edge distribution should be shipping new release of perl as one of the first distributions.

Scope

Everything will be rebuild in testing buildroot dist-f14-perltest. 'make build TARGET=dist-f14-perltest'

• update perl to 5.12.1
• update/fix/rebuild all perl modules
• rebuild all other dependent packages -> file bugs to maintainers
• in case no basic components are broken, then packages could be tagged into dist-f14 buildroot

How To Test

Download packages from koji's buildroot dist-f14-perltest or try your packages with rebuild build requirements related to perl.

User Experience

User could notice warnings about soon to be removed modules e.g. Class::ISA will be removed, install from CPAN and errors in syntax e.g. defined(%hash) isn't supported anymore.

Dependencies

repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps 'perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.1?.?)' | sort -u

Contingency Plan

In case some essential packages couldn't be fixed, then would be used perl-5.10.?.

Some packages seem to be unfixable, therefore they should be removed if they don't have any other dependencies.

Documentation

• changes between 5.10.1 and 5.12.x http://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta.html
• updated packaging guidelines https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDraft:Perl
• how to update modules and dual-lived modules: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl/updates