[Pkg-net-snmp-devel] Bug#751918: net-snmp: hardcodes /usr/lib/perl5

[Niko Tyni]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:09:30PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: net-snmp
> Version: 5.7.2.1~dfsg-6
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: perl-5.20-transition
> 
> Starting with version 5.20.0 (currently in experimental), the Debian
> perl package is changing the "vendorarch" library paths (currently
> /usr/lib/perl5) to include the multiarch triplet and the perl version. See
> #748380 for details.

> The attached patch implements this for net-snmp by making
> debian/libsnmp-perl.install into an executable perl script. (YMMV; there
> are certainly other ways to do it.) I've tested that this produces no
> debdiff visible changes on current sid while fixing a build failure at
> the 'install' stage with perl_5.20.0-1.
> 
> Please consider including something like this sooner rather than later;
> net-snmp is a build dependency for other packages that need to be rebuilt
> for the Perl 5.20 transition, and this issue is currently hindering our
> rebuild tests.

Ping? There's quite a few reverse build dependencies that haven't been
tested yet for Perl 5.20 compatibility because of this bug, including

 collectd
 cyrus-imapd-2.4
 freeradius
 kamailio
 libguestfs
 libsnmp-info-perl
 libsnmp-multi-perl
 nut

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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org