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Bug 247315 - >=net-im/pidgin-2.5.0 has to use Perl 5.10
Summary: >=net-im/pidgin-2.5.0 has to use Perl 5.10
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Net-im project
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Depends on: 206455
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Reported: 2008-11-18 08:51 UTC by Dominik George
Modified: 2013-07-02 15:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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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

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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. ***