Bug 611014

Summary:	perl-Data-Alias fails to build
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ralf Corsepius <rc040203>
Component:	perl-Data-Alias	Assignee:	Chris Weyl <cweyl>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	14	CC:	cweyl, iarnell, mmaslano, perl-devel, ppisar
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2010-07-03 05:43:15 UTC

Description of problem:
perl-Data-Alias fails to build on rawhide.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
perl-Data-Alias-1.07-7.fc14

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rebuild the package in rawhide
  
Actual results:
Build failure.

Expected results:
Success.

Additional info:
* Apparently this package is incompatible to perl-5.12 and can't be built against it.
* Its upstream appears dead.

This package needs to be made working or it will have to be removed from 
Fedora >= 14. AFAICT, this package is not used by Fedora itself, so it's probably safe to remove it.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-07-30 12:25:08 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 14 development cycle.
Changing version to '14'.

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

Comment 2 Iain Arnell 2010-08-06 15:13:32 UTC

According to rgs on perl5-porters list[1], upstream will not be updating Data::Alias for perl 5.12. And despite Niko's efforts at debian[2], it doesn't look like a comprehensive patch will be coming from them either.

Fortunately, though, we're in the same position as debian - the only direct reverse dependency was perl-Data-Visitor, and that was a soft dep that's already been removed.

I've gone ahead and tried to have it blocked for F14 and rawhide[3]. If that works, I'll retire it in git and pkgdb.


[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters/84416
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578547
[3] https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/3940

Comment 3 Iain Arnell 2010-08-25 10:10:08 UTC

perl-Data-Alias is retired now in F14 and rawhide.