Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Efraim,
> 
> Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be better
> > to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl
> > modules separately. It seems to me that there are a large number of perl
> > packages that haven't been updated in quite some time.
> 
> Reverting is not an option at this point IMO.  There are several Date::*
> modules required by Biber that FTBFS and need an update, indeed, but I
> think we should rather find a way to fix them (I spent a bit of time on
> it but then moved on to something else.)
> 
> Thoughts?

The "stereotypical" Perl 5.26.0-related failures are the "dotless @INC"
and regex brace-escaping issues. Both of these can be fixed downstream
(in Guix) fairly easily, if necessary.

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