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On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:02:50 GMT, slaven@rezic.de wrote: > Dana Mon, 23 Apr 2018 05:59:01 -0700, davem reče: > > On Sun, Apr 22, 2018 at 08:18:58AM -0600, Karl Williamson wrote: > > > On 04/22/2018 07:18 AM, Aaron Crane via RT wrote: > > > > The test failure is caused by Perl no longer loading utf8.pm for > > > > most Unicode property matches. I've written a patch to the > > > > Lexical::SealRequireHints test suite so that it now picks one of > > > > the few remaining property matches that *does* load utf8.pm, and > > > > submitted it to the L::SRH RT queue as > > > > https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125176 > > > > > > But note, that those few properties are going to stop loading > > > utf8.pm > > > early > > > in 5.29. > > > > Given that the module needs fixing rather than perl, and that the > > module > > is maintained by Zefram, I don't see any need to keep this ticket as > > a > > 5.28 blocker. > > Having a stable release where more than 100 CPAN distributions are not > buildable anymore is just bad user experience. A blocker ticket does > not have to mean that something have to be changed in the perl > interpreter, but that at least there should be some management done to > fix this situation. Today I posted in https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125176 confirming the value of the patch submitted by Aaron Crane and requesting that the upstream maintainer apply it and issue a new CPAN release. Thank you very much. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133135Thread Next