Perl Report

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 07/20/2008 03:39 AM, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> After the last meeting, I was tasked with finding out what was missing
> in terms of Perl package in EPEL.
>
> Thanks to cweyl and some discussion on #fedora-devel we now have a
> report that is amazing.
>
> http://fedora.biggerontheinside.net/perl/
>
> Again, thanks to cweyl for the wicked-good layout of this report.
>
>
> Now it's time for some analysis of the data and to see what we can do
> to get more packages into EPEL.
>
>   
    A couple of months ago I wanted to install bugzilla from EL-4 but I 
found out that a bunch of perl modules were missing (actually bugzilla 
needed one module which in turn needed others and via a looooooooooooong 
dependency chain I ended up building 13 packages which were missing at 
the time from EL-4). In the end I was stuck because a certain feature 
(really, I do not remember which one :( ) was provided by perl-5.8.8 but 
not by the stock perl [-5.8.5] which is provided by Centos 4.
    Comparing my internal repo with the list from 
http://fedora.biggerontheinside.net/perl/ I notice that I have 
successfully built perl-Image-Size-3.1-3,  perl-Text-Autoformat-1.14.0-3 
and perl-Text-Reform-1.12.2-5. All of them seem to have been built 
cleanly, except for the last one for which I have disabled %check (the 
entry I have added to the changelog at the time says " all tests fail 
due to missing version.pm").
    So here comes issue number 1: if someone with more knowledge in perl 
can verify my packages, I can happily provide them (so as to save the 
building time) and if they are OK, could we bump the EPEL versions ?
    Issue number 2: AFAIK, perl-5.8.8 is NOT available in the stock 
distro but from the more advanced Application Stack. Am I wrong here ?//

        wolfy (who has just come back from vacation)


PS: Who is the person responsible with building the report (Chris ?) ? 
It's a nice piece of work but it needs a bit of fixing, since some 
modules which are available in F-9/rawhide are obviously missing from 
the list. Starting with perl itself...