Re: [Attn. Maintainers] Reminder: Package updates needed for the pending switch to perl-5.30.1

[Alexey Sokolov <alexey+cygwin@asokolov.org>]

23.11.2019 17:19, Achim Gratz пишет:
> Achim Gratz writes:
>> I've already built the new Perl packages and the (almost) full set of
>> distributions.  I'm waiting for the stage 2 tests of the Perl build to
>> finish and will then post a repository link for you to point setup.exe
>> to (in addition of the Cygwin mirror) to update your own build systems.
>> This time around these are the same packages that will be going live on
>> the Cygwin mirrors unless I find an error that needs to be dealt with.
>>
>> Besides Ken and Andrew, who have already responded, the only other
>> packages I don't yet maintain are from Yaakov (mostly Gnome and GUI
>> related stuff) and the *Magick wrappers that Marco maintains.  There
>> should be other packages with captive Perl modules (IIRC SVN and Git).
>> Git isn't affected because it sets up @INC itself and doesn't have
>> architecture-specific modules.
>>
>> During the release of Perl-5.26 we've fingered the following:
>>
>> biber:	             BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX (installed binaries and support files)
>> git-svn:	     Subversion compatibility support for Git version control system
>> git:	             Distributed version control system
>> grepmail:	     search mailboxes for mail matching an expression (installed binaries and support files)
>> irssi:	             Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
>> nginx-mod_http_perl: Web and mail proxy server (installed binaries and support files)
>> nginx-mod_http_perl: Web and mail proxy server
>> po4a:	             Tools for translating various file formats with gettext (installed binaries and support files)
>> pristine-tar:	     Regenerate pristine tarballs (installed binaries and support files)
>> sendxmpp:            Commandline XMPP (jabber) utility (installed binaries and support files)
>> subversion-perl:     A version control system (perl bindings)
>> texlive:             TeXLive
>>
>> Again, just like the last time around, noarch packages _should_ keep
>> working if the files are moved to the correct directory where Perl-5.30
>> looks for them, but I've not really checked.  Since there have been many
>> changes in Perl internals, I wouldn't take chances with archful packages
>> (anything that comes with a DLL).
> 
> Loooking through further mails from the last major version update for
> Perl, it appears that a number of packages have embedded Perl
> interpretors.  Since we still lack the infrastructure to have multiple
> Perl versions installed in parallel, these will also need to be updated
> as otherwise they might no longer be able to link into the perl DLL.
> The mentioned packages included:
> 

Shall we build it, but not upload yet, or how do you want to manage the
atomic update?

> gdal
> gnumeric
> graphviz
> hexchat
> irssi
> libproxy
> link-grammar
> marisa
> net-smp
> openbabel
> openswan
> postgresql
> rxvt-unicode
> vim
> xfconf
> zbar
> zinnia
> znc
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Achim.
>