[debhelper-devel] Bug#836110: Remove export of PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC in the future

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 05:58:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:35:41 +0100 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> > Package: debhelper
> > Version: 9.20160814
> > Severity: wishlist
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: perl at packages.debian.org
> > User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: perl-cwd-inc-removal
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:59:00PM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > > Dominic Hargreaves:
> > > > Hi maintainers,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks very much for applying the patches in #832436 for the
> > > > remove-cwd-in-inc issue in perl. One of these changes, to export
> > > > PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC, is not a good long-term solution, and I will file
> > > > bugs against packages which would otherwise be broken in due course
> > > > with a view to requesting removal of that export in debhelper at some
> > > > point after stretch's release.
> > > > 
> > > > Would you be happy for me to file a wishlist bug against this to act
> > > > as a reminder, and to block with the bugs I will file against affected
> > > > packages?
> > > > 
> > > > No hurry on this, but I wanted to make sure it didn't get forgotten.
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Dominic.
> > > > 
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > [...]
> > 
> 
> Hi Dominic,
> 
> Did you file some of the blockers already?  If so, they don't seem to be
> tagged as blockers of this bug. :)

Hi Niels,

(and sorry about the silence).

No, not yet. That will need a full rebuild with the debhelper change
reverted, and I'm unlikely to have time to do that until the new year.

Cheers,
Dominic.