Bug 247315

Summary:	>=net-im/pidgin-2.5.0 has to use Perl 5.10
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Dominik George <gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Net-im project <net-im>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	andrei.mihaila, pva
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	206455
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Description Dominik George 2008-11-18 08:51:26 UTC

As of Pidgin 2.5.0, Perl >=5.10 is a requirement for Perl support. The ebuilds in portage all require >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.2-r1, which is wrong and will cause users to bang their heads against the wall trying to find out why their Perl support is not working.

Unfortunately, Perl 5.10 is not in portage yet, but however, 5.8 does not do anything but crash the perl interpreter when used inside Pidgin.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Olivier Crete (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-22 03:51:31 UTC

That would require us to have perl 5.10 .. but I'm pretty sure it works with 5.8.2

Comment 2 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-02 12:53:09 UTC

Dominik, I failed to find any requirement for perl-5.10 and I've checked. perl plugins work here. So I'll mark this bug as invalid until you'll privide some additional information. Thanks.

Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-07-02 15:31:05 UTC

*** Bug 475454 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***