Bug 23462

Summary:	dev-perl/XML-Simple-2.0.7 breaks gnupod (and other apps?) with perl 5.6.1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tristan Henderson <T.Henderson>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team <perl>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tristan Henderson 2003-06-25 08:53:56 UTC

The latest dev-perl/XML-Simple-2.0.7 includes dev-perl/XML-SAX as a dependency. XML-SAX doesn't 
seem to play very nicely with perl 5.6.1. In particular gnupod no longer works, but this probably 
applies to other applications using XML as well:

palmer /# gnupod_list.pl
Only ASCII encoding allowed without perl 5.7.2 or higher. You tried: ISO-8859-1

XML-SAX support is actually optional for XML-Simple, so one solution is to remove this dependency if 
perl<5.8 is installed (I'm not quite sure how to do this in portage?). Another option would be to make 
XML-SAX only depend on perl>=5.8 (maybe remove it from the default-1.0 profile?). I don't know if 
either of these is acceptable, but for my own personal use, I have manually unmerged XML-SAX, and 
XML-Simple seems to work fine.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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palmer / # emerge info
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-1.0, gcc-2.95.3, glibc-2.2.5-r8)
==============================================================
===
System uname: 2.4.21 i686 Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linu  
x/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/confi  g 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/co  nfig/ 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 apm avi crypt cups encode libg++ mmx mpeg ncurses pdflib quicktime spel  l truetype 
xml2 xmms xv berkdb esd gdbm gif gnome-libs gpm gtk imlib java libwww   motif oggvorbis pam 
python readline sdl snmp ssl svga tcpd -3dnow alsa apache2   -arts bonobo cdr curses dga dvd 
emacs ethereal evo fbcon gnome gtk2 gtkhtml guil  e jpeg -kde lcms -lirc -mikmod mysql nas -nls 
odbc -opengl oss pcmcia pda perl p  ic plotutils png pnp -qt -qtmt samba -slang smooth tcltk tetex tiff 
trusted usb   vim-with-x xml X zlib"
COMPILER=""
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="ccache digest sandbox strict"

Comment 1 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-11 03:52:41 UTC

Actually, perl 5.8 is marked as stable for all architectures, all profiles now. We can no longer continue to support the 5.6.1 installations. Does this problem still affect you with perl 5.8?

Comment 2 Tristan Henderson 2003-08-11 06:35:08 UTC

I had forgotten about this bug :-)
No, the problem doesn't exist with perl 5.8, so feel free to close this.

Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-08-11 06:58:25 UTC

Resolved when 5.8 became the default