Bug 533562 - Please upgrade ExtUtils::Manifest to at least 1.52
Summary: Please upgrade ExtUtils::Manifest to at least 1.52
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: perl
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Marcela Mašláňová
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 532928
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-07 10:42 UTC by Alex Lancaster
Modified: 2009-12-04 12:50 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-12-04 12:50:17 UTC
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Description Alex Lancaster 2009-11-07 10:42:35 UTC
Currently this blocks an upgrade of the perl-bioperl package which requires:

ExtUtils::Manifest >= 1.52

Without it, perl-bioperl 1.6.1 won't build, get this:

Checking prerequisites...
 - ERROR: ExtUtils::Manifest (1.51_01) is installed, but we need version >= 1.52

According to the upstream developers it is necessary to be strict about this version.  My original query:

http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2009-November/031529.html

and the response:

http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2009-November/031538.html

Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-11-09 16:39:42 UTC
I hope you don't need it for F-12. I'm okay with rawhide update.

Comment 2 Alex Lancaster 2009-11-09 20:44:21 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> I hope you don't need it for F-12. I'm okay with rawhide update.  

Umm, yes, I do.  Otherwise I won't be able to update bioperl for a whole release cycle, which means users won't be able to use the new bioperl in a stable Fedora release (which is a bug fix release) for at least 6 more months.  

I knew this would be an issue, so I brought it up with upstream and you can see their response:

http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2009-November/031538.html

Suggested workarounds welcome.

Comment 3 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-11-10 08:06:10 UTC
The build is failing on missing CPAN package. As far as I know you shouldn't need CPAN, because it's used for auto install of missing packages. Maybe I'm wrong and you're simply missing requirement.
I don't have problem with updating release of ExtUtils::Manifest, but I'm against creating zero update for perl. I'm usually fixing more bugs in an update so it take few weeks. In F-13 we are working on packaging perl-5.10.1, so the update there also take a few weeks.

You can try as a workaround edit Makefile.PL and see whether the higher version is really needed.

Comment 4 Alex Lancaster 2009-11-10 08:27:38 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> The build is failing on missing CPAN package. As far as I know you shouldn't
> need CPAN, because it's used for auto install of missing packages. Maybe I'm
> wrong and you're simply missing requirement.
> I don't have problem with updating release of ExtUtils::Manifest, but I'm
> against creating zero update for perl. I'm usually fixing more bugs in an
> update so it take few weeks. In F-13 we are working on packaging perl-5.10.1,
> so the update there also take a few weeks.
> 
> You can try as a workaround edit Makefile.PL and see whether the higher version
> is really needed.  

It is, as explained by upstream:

http://bioperl.org/pipermail/bioperl-l/2009-November/031538.html

but I may be able to workaround that because we probably don't need to create a MANIFEST during the package build.

Comment 5 Chris Weyl 2009-11-10 16:02:15 UTC
Looks like ExtUtils::Manifest is at 1.56 in 5.10.1...  I agree with Alex; we're supposed to be going to 5.10.1 in rawhide, F-11/F-12 Perl are essentially the same right now, and we haven't even released F-12 yet.

We should be able to backport from 5.10.1 and leave this kicking around in updates-testing for a while...  in F-11 at least.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 15:16:49 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 7 Marcela Mašláňová 2009-12-04 12:50:17 UTC
In rawhide perl 5.10.1 contains ExtUtils::Manifest 1.56.


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