http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580171 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=580171#c0 Summary: perl-5.10.0 is shipping with out of date modules in core Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Development AssignedTo: pth@novell.com ReportedBy: nine@detonation.org QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Created an attachment (id=342637) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=342637) patch updating the included Test::Simple User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.3; Linux) KHTML/4.3.1 (like Gecko) SUSE perl-5.10.0 comes with Test::More 0.72 and Module::Pluggable 3.6. Many current perl modules need a newer Test::More because the shipped version does not support the done_testing method. Most notably Catalyst needs a newer Module::Pluggable as well. Due to the module search path in openSUSE's perl package, it's not possible to supply packages updating these modules. Thus it's not possible to package a lot of perl modules, since their dependecies cannot be matched. I've talked to Stephan Kulow, Adrian Schröter and Christopher Hofmann about this problem and the solution we came up with was patching newer versions of these two modules into a perl base package which I've done in my repo at home:niner9:perl. To get the packages out of my home repo into devel:languages:perl, we would need to move the perl package there as well which is not possible, because there already is one. So the only option would be to push an update into the distribution perl package. I'm attaching packages to do just that. Though it isn't exactly in the scope of stablility and security updates, it would help tremendously with packaging more and newer perl modules. Module::Pluggable does not have any incompatible changes, only bugfixes. And Test::More should not have any influence on running code and is used only for development. Any developer would want a newer verion of this module anyway. So is there a chance of getting this into an update? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.