Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

[Leo Famulari]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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.)

I've got the Date::* modules building with the attached patch series.
However, biber and biber-next fail their test suites. The last part of
the test suite:

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Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/}(\pM+\pL){ <-- HERE 
(?!\pL+\\)/ at 
/tmp/guix-build-biber-2.5.drv-0/biber-2.5/blib/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm line 
295.
t/tool-bltxml-inout.t .. ok
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/}(\pM+\pL){ <-- HERE 
(?!\pL+\\)/ at 
/tmp/guix-build-biber-2.5.drv-0/biber-2.5/blib/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm line 
295.
t/tool-bltxml.t ........ ok
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/}(\pM+\pL){ <-- HERE 
(?!\pL+\\)/ at 
/tmp/guix-build-biber-2.5.drv-0/biber-2.5/blib/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm line 
295.
t/tool.t ............... ok
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/}(\pM+\pL){ <-- HERE 
(?!\pL+\\)/ at 
/tmp/guix-build-biber-2.5.drv-0/biber-2.5/blib/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm line 
295.
t/uniqueness.t ......... ok
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/}(\pM+\pL){ <-- HERE 
(?!\pL+\\)/ at 
/tmp/guix-build-biber-2.5.drv-0/biber-2.5/blib/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm line 
295.
t/utils.t .............. ok
Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 
5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/}(\pM+\pL){ <-- HERE 
(?!\pL+\\)/ at 
/tmp/guix-build-biber-2.5.drv-0/biber-2.5/blib/lib/Biber/LaTeX/Recode.pm line 
295.

#   Failed test 'xdata test - 1'
#   at t/xdata.t line 114.
# --- Got
# +++ Expected
# @@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
#  '    \\entry{xd1}{book}{}
#        \\name{author}{1}{}{%
#          {{hash=51db4bfd331cba22959ce2d224c517cd}{%
#             family={Ellington},
#             family_i={E\\bibinitperiod},
#             given={Edward},
#             given_i={E\\bibinitperiod}}}%
#        }
#        \\list{location}{2}{%
#          {New York}%
#          {London}%
#        }
#        \\list{publisher}{1}{%
#          {Macmillan}%
#        }
#        \\strng{namehash}{51db4bfd331cba22959ce2d224c517cd}
#        \\strng{fullhash}{51db4bfd331cba22959ce2d224c517cd}
#        \\field{sortinit}{E}
# -      \\field{sortinithash}{07bbd5a529b5beaa311df5be05b874bc}
# +      \\field{sortinithash}{fefc5210ef4721525b2a478df41efcd4}
#        \\field{labelyear}{2007}
#        \\field{datelabelsource}{}
#        \\field{labelnamesource}{author}
#        \\field{note}{A Note}
#        \\field{year}{2007}
#      \\endentry
#  '

#   Failed test 'xdata test - 2'
#   at t/xdata.t line 115.
# --- Got
# +++ Expected
# @@ -1,29 +1,29 @@
#  '    \\entry{xd2}{book}{}
#        \\name{author}{1}{}{%
#          {{hash=68539e0ce4922cc4957c6cabf35e6fc8}{%
#             family={Pillington},
#             family_i={P\\bibinitperiod},
#             given={Peter},
#             given_i={P\\bibinitperiod}}}%
#        }
#        \\list{location}{2}{%
#          {New York}%
#          {London}%
#        }
#        \\list{publisher}{1}{%
#          {Routledge}%
#        }
#        \\strng{namehash}{68539e0ce4922cc4957c6cabf35e6fc8}
#        \\strng{fullhash}{68539e0ce4922cc4957c6cabf35e6fc8}
#        \\field{sortinit}{P}
# -      \\field{sortinithash}{24100cef455d7974167575052c29146e}
# +      \\field{sortinithash}{c0a4896d0e424f9ca4d7f14f2b3428e7}
#        \\field{labelyear}{2003}
#        \\field{datelabelsource}{}
#        \\field{labelnamesource}{author}
#        \\field{abstract}{An abstract}
#        \\field{addendum}{Москва}
#        \\field{note}{A Note}
#        \\field{venue}{venue}
#        \\field{year}{2003}
#      \\endentry
#  '
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 5.
t/xdata.t .............. 
Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 2/5 subtests 

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/annotations.t      (Wstat: 256 Tests: 1 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  1
  Non-zero exit status: 1
t/basic-misc.t       (Wstat: 3584 Tests: 67 Failed: 14)
  Failed tests:  1, 5, 10, 13, 16-18, 44, 57-62
  Non-zero exit status: 14
t/biblatexml.t       (Wstat: 512 Tests: 5 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  1, 5
  Non-zero exit status: 2
t/crossrefs.t        (Wstat: 5376 Tests: 33 Failed: 21)
  Failed tests:  1-6, 8-16, 18-19, 21-22, 32-33
  Non-zero exit status: 21
t/dm-dateformats.t   (Wstat: 1792 Tests: 33 Failed: 7)
  Failed tests:  21-23, 25, 27, 29, 32
  Non-zero exit status: 7
t/encoding.t         (Wstat: 2304 Tests: 10 Failed: 9)
  Failed tests:  1-8, 10
  Non-zero exit status: 9
t/names.t            (Wstat: 8192 Tests: 59 Failed: 32)
  Failed tests:  19-44, 46-47, 52-55
  Non-zero exit status: 32
t/options.t          (Wstat: 768 Tests: 9 Failed: 3)
  Failed tests:  7-9
  Non-zero exit status: 3
t/related-entries.t  (Wstat: 2304 Tests: 12 Failed: 9)
  Failed tests:  1-2, 4-7, 10-12
  Non-zero exit status: 9
t/ris.t              (Wstat: 512 Tests: 2 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  1-2
  Non-zero exit status: 2
t/set-dynamic.t      (Wstat: 1536 Tests: 7 Failed: 6)
  Failed tests:  2-7
  Non-zero exit status: 6
t/set-legacy.t       (Wstat: 768 Tests: 3 Failed: 3)
  Failed tests:  1-3
  Non-zero exit status: 3
t/set-static.t       (Wstat: 1280 Tests: 5 Failed: 5)
  Failed tests:  1-5
  Non-zero exit status: 5
t/skips.t            (Wstat: 2048 Tests: 15 Failed: 8)
  Failed tests:  7, 9-15
  Non-zero exit status: 8
t/sort-complex.t     (Wstat: 1280 Tests: 9 Failed: 5)
  Failed tests:  2-6
  Non-zero exit status: 5
t/sortlists.t        (Wstat: 512 Tests: 14 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  13-14
  Non-zero exit status: 2
t/xdata.t            (Wstat: 512 Tests: 5 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  1-2
  Non-zero exit status: 2
Files=42, Tests=962, 51 wallclock secs ( 0.52 usr  0.05 sys + 39.62 cusr 10.59 
csys = 50.78 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 17/42 test programs. 131/962 subtests failed.
phase `check' failed after 51.3 seconds
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