Bug 329525 – Please stabilize =dev-perl/FileHandle-Unget-0.16.23

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description CFuga 2010-07-23 05:13:07 UTC]

FileHandler-Unget-0.16.21 is the current stable version in Gentoo. It implicity depends on ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes, provided by ExtUtils::MakeMaker.

Since dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r8 includes ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.30, there's no problem in stable.
But according to ExtUtils::MakeMaker's changelog, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes was deleted in version 6.51_01. Since dev-lang/perl-5.10.1 includes version 6.55_02, FileHandler-Unget will stop working with that Perl version.

There are 2 ways to fix the problem:
 * Mark dev-perl/FileHandler-Unget-0.16.23 as stable. It's available in the portage tree since August 2009, works with either stable or unstable Perl versions, no open bugs, and doesn't depend on ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes.
 * Patch dev-perl/FileHandler-Unget-0.16.21 to remove the dependency. I could provide the patch, if needed.

[Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-07-23 14:06:00 UTC]

I prefer the first. Let's move on...

Thanks

Please stabilize
=dev-perl/FileHandle-Unget-0.16.23

[Comment 2 David Abbott (RETIRED) 2010-07-23 14:59:26 UTC]

All good on x86.

[Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-07-23 15:24:41 UTC]

Stable on x86 and amd64.

David, thanks for testing.

[Comment 4 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2010-07-24 17:45:08 UTC]

ia64/sparc stable

[Comment 5 Brent Baude (RETIRED) 2010-10-14 18:47:19 UTC]

ppc stable, closing