[arch-general] Checkgmail doesn't work with perl 5.12 from testing

[Guillaume Brunerie]

2010/5/29 Alexander Lam <lambchop468 at gmail.com>

> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Firmicus <Firmicus at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On 12/05/2010 07:17, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Firmicus<Firmicus at gmx.net>  wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Certainly this is because glib-perl needs to be recompiled with perl
> >>> 5.12.
> >>> Other perl packages that include binary libraries may need to be
> >>> recompiled
> >>> too. We need a TODO list for such perl packages...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> any package that's not arch any needs to be rebuilt. also watch for
> >> actual compiling...
> >
> > Right, all non-any perl packages should be rebuilt. I'll send Kevin a
> > preliminary TODO list for such packages in extra and community (I found
> 209
> > of them... yerk! but as you say there must be many that are actually
> > arch=any). Most probably we also need to rebuild all packages that use
> > libperl.so. Last year the list of such pkgs was:
> >
> <snip>
> > F
> >
>
> Hi all,
>
> Did this perl rebuild get lost or something? (I currently have perl on
> my IgnorePkg list because glib-perl hasn't been updated for 5.12
> yet....)
>
> --
> Alexander Lam
>

In the meantime you can rebuild glib-perl (and other libraries) yourself
with ABS.