[gentoo-dev] Heads up to the arch's - perl module testing bugs on their way (internal QA)

[Michael Cummings]

I can't guarantee how fast this will happen, maybe only a few at a time,
but I wanted to give the arch's a heads up that I will be filing "bugs"
for having perl-modules tested and unmasked in response to bug 84744. To
sum it up real quick like for the lazy/browser-shy - we have ebuilds in
dev-perl for perl modules that are also distributed as a part of the
core perl install. The issue is that some of these ebuilds were last
marked as stable for versions that are older than what is provided by
the stable perl ebuild. To avoid this QA nightmare before it becomes
one, I'm going through the tree, making sure all of the ebuilds we
provide that replace core perl modules are up to date, then in my local
repository marking which ones will need to be re-DEP'd to <perl-version.

That's where you come in my exotic architecture friends (exotic being
defined as anything I can't afford to own or house :) ) and the slow,
steady stream of bugs I'm going to be filing. On the up side, if you
have perl installed, in most cases you already have the version of the
module installed too :)

Thanks for your patience and understanding,

Mike