Bug 2260493

Summary:	Retiring perl-Test-Vars, needed by perl-Test-Apocalypse
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul Howarth <paul>
Component:	perl-Test-Apocalypse	Assignee:	Orphan Owner <extras-orphan>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	perl-devel, ppisar
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Description Paul Howarth 2024-01-26 13:03:01 UTC

The perl-Test-Vars package is FTBFS with Perl 5.38 and I intend to retire it soon since there has been no activity on this upstream for many months and I can't fix it myself.

The perl-Test-Apocalypse package pulls in Test::Vars as both a build-time and run-time requirement. Back in the days of Perl 5.22 there was a similar issue with Test::Vars (that eventually got fixed) and the approach taken then was to drop the parts of perl-Test-Apocalypse that needed Test::Vars (Bug #1231903). Perhaps that could be done again?

Alternatively, I can hand over the perl-Test-Vars package to you and you can try to fix it/get it fixed yourself.

Please let me know your preference.

In the meantime I'm working to get the other dependants of perl-Test-Vars to drop the dependency in Rawhide.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Petr Pisar 2024-01-29 16:10:18 UTC

I will retire perl-Test-Apocalypse. It's only a metamodule without any additional value. The only user in Fedora is perl-Test-Pod-No404s and that's only an optional test and the test should have been disabled for many years. Also perl-Test-Apocalypse upstream was not much active regarding this Test::Vars problem so far.

Comment 2 Petr Pisar 2024-01-30 12:25:43 UTC

I retired this package. It should disappear from next Rawhide compose.

Comment 3 Paul Howarth 2024-01-30 12:47:14 UTC

Thanks!

Comment 4 Fedora Admin user for bugzilla script actions 2024-01-31 00:29:26 UTC

This package has changed maintainer in Fedora. Reassigning to the new maintainer of this component.

Comment 5 Petr Pisar 2024-02-12 09:01:05 UTC

The package was successfully removed from Fedora 40.