| Subject: | Data::Alias is broken with 5.12.0 |
Hi,
this is a heads up that Data::Alias, an optional dependency of
Data-Visitor, is broken on Perl 5.12.0. Details are at [rt.cpan.org #36165].
AFAICS, the only functionality used by Data-Visitor is
Data::Alias::deref(), which seems to work fine on 5.12.0 after fixing a
couple of simple compilation problems.
As fixing the other parts of Data-Alias is looking hard, perhaps a
viable way forward would be to switch Data-Visitor to use something else
for similar functionality or, alternatively, break deref() out of
Data-Alias into a separate distribution and make Data-Visitor use that?
FWIW, a related Debian bug is http://bugs.debian.org/578547 and
Data-Visitor is the only package in Debian that uses Data-Alias. On
CPAN, I'm aware of at least Method::Signatures using the broken parts of
Data-Alias.
Many thanks for your work,
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Niko Tyni (Debian Perl group)
ntyni@debian.org