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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl 5.26 Unmasking Warning [affects all users]
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:55:52
Message-Id: 20170808215541.60175dbf8640e95ebfd70750@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Perl 5.26 Unmasking Warning [affects all users] by Kent Fredric
1 On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 04:20:18 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > We're finally at a point where we're nearing the unmasking[1] of Perl
3 > 5.26 and making it visible to ~arch users, and a "news item" on this
4 > matter will appear shortly.
5 >
6 > Due to a collection of various problems faced in this version,
7 > extensive amounts of work has been needed to simply deliver an ~arch
8 > release that isn't incredibly visibly broken [1][2].
9
10 [1] indicates there are unfixed problems with core system packages:
11 gcc (620164) and autoconf (625576). Having them broken even in
12 ~arch is no fun. Are you going to fix these issues before perl-5.26
13 will be unmasked?
14
15 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=perl-5.26-unmask
16
17
18 Best regards,
19 Andrew Savchenko

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Perl 5.26 Unmasking Warning [affects all users] "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>