Bug 329965 – dev-lang/perl-5.12.1-r1: "Switch will be removed from the Perl code distribution..."

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-07-26 17:56:01 UTC]

From media-sound/volwheel & dev-lang/perl-5.12.1-r1

$ volwheel 
Switch will be removed from the Perl core distribution in the next major release. Please install it from CPAN. It is being used at /usr/bin/volwheel, line 21.

I couldn't find Switch from dev-perl or perl-core categories...

[Comment 1 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2010-07-26 18:20:08 UTC]

http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Switch-2.16/

I think this is a candidate for a virtual?

Ideally, I think nuking anything that needs Switch.pm would be advised because its just so bad, but I'm just that way inclined =).

[Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-07-26 18:23:28 UTC]

virtual/perl-CGI (perl-core/CGI):

>>> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.1/CGI/Switch.pm

It still complains about that missing module... is that a bug in volwheel instead?

[Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-07-26 18:24:28 UTC]

Nevermind; missed your comment :)

[Comment 4 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-07-29 19:19:29 UTC]

So should we add Switch or should we patch volwheel?
We could patch it to use "given" but then we would depend on >=dev-lang/perl-5.10.

[Comment 5 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) 2010-07-29 19:31:27 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> So should we add Switch or should we patch volwheel?
> We could patch it to use "given" but then we would depend on
> >=dev-lang/perl-5.10.
> 

I'm thinking virtual/perl-Switch + dev-perl/Switch ( not in perl-core cos its no longer in perl's core =) )     

|| ( <dev/lang-perl-5.12 dev-perl/Switch )

then dep volwheel on virtual/perl-Switch

in dev-perl/Switch put warnings about its deprecation and now its bad to use, file bugs to upstream on volwheel and anything else that uses Switch suggesting "Can we have a copy without this crap?", and when nothings left in tree that needs it, hardmask it ( and the virtual ),

I don't see depping on >perl-5.10 a /bad/ thing, but it shouldn't be forced until 5.10 is stable. If upstream get solve our problems for us, then we can stick the new versions in tree as ~arch, and this problem can slip away =).

Alternatively, we can just hack it ourself, make it a -r1 and mark it as ~arch depping >=5.10

[Comment 6 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-07-29 19:43:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> I don't see depping on >perl-5.10 a /bad/ thing, but it shouldn't be forced
> until 5.10 is stable.

I hope we can stabilize perl-5.12.1 in August.

So if we ignore the warnings for now, we have another half a year to fix volwheel before 5.14 is released.

[Comment 7 Olivier Duclos 2010-07-30 21:06:03 UTC]

Hi there! I'm the author of VolWheel. I'm planning to release a new version this weekend, and it will fix this bug. I will not use 'given' because I need VolWheel to run on some old distributions.

[Comment 8 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) 2010-07-30 21:57:09 UTC]

Olivier, that sounds great. Thanks

[Comment 9 Olivier Duclos 2010-08-01 12:29:46 UTC]

v0.2.8 is available!

[Comment 10 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) 2010-08-01 12:55:38 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> v0.2.8 is available!
> 

excellent :)

+*volwheel-0.2.8 (01 Aug 2010)
+
+  01 Aug 2010; Samuli Suominen <[e-mail]>
+  +volwheel-0.2.8.ebuild:
+  Version bump wrt #329965, thanks to Torsten Veller and Kent Fredric for
+  analysis and Olivier Duclos (upstream) for the fix.