Re: revert perl-5.26.0 update?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Efraim,

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> There's a lot of perl related build failures. Maybe it would be better
> to revert the perl update and work on updating perl and all the perl
> modules separately. It seems to me that there are a large number of perl
> packages that haven't been updated in quite some time.

Reverting is not an option at this point IMO.  There are several Date::*
modules required by Biber that FTBFS and need an update, indeed, but I
think we should rather find a way to fix them (I spent a bit of time on
it but then moved on to something else.)

Thoughts?

Ludo’.