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

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:06:21PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 08:55:00AM +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 14:12:53 +0000 Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > Ping. :)
> > 
> > I was reminded of this due to a related chat on #d-perl today. :)
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> Sorry about this. At this stage I think it might be better to wait
> until perl 5.26 has transitioned, so we can reassess all the various
> breakages without the local modifications that we introduced for 5.24.
> 
> I think a transition bug will be opened soon, so this shouldn't delay
> by more than another couple of months, which should be acceptable for 
> the buster release?

(For the bug record).

Niels removed this from debhelper compat 11:

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debhelper/debhelper.git/tree/debhelper.pod#n683

but I don't this changes my plan above to push on this after the
perl 5.26 transition is underway. It means that module maintainers
can move to debhelper 11 as a way to verify whether their packages
need properly fixing.

Thanks Niels!

Dominic.