Re: Updated CPAN River available

On 04/09/2017 09:03 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 10 April 2017 at 12:54, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 7. Used a revised version of 'order-battle.pl' to record the order in
>> which various modules *first* appeared in the 'fails' file and the
>> total number of times each module was cited. Results are attached as
>> 'order-of-battle-20170409.txt'.
>>
>> What is the "order of battle"?  It's an approximation of the order in
>> which, as of today, we need to get new CPAN releases out so that
>> down-river distros are no longer failing due to failures in their
>> upstream dependencies.
>
>
> yeah, this is looking much more like the suffering I'm seeing with vendoring.
>
> Though query: I presume the battle list includes not only "things that
> are themselves broken", but "things that are broken because their
> dependencies can't be satisfied" ?

Exactly.  I've created about 10 bug tickets in the last hour which, 
rigorously tested, are not perl-5.26.0-ready ... but those distros 
depend on 2 distros which, e.g., have failing tests.  Module-Runtime is 
at the top of the order-of-battle for good reason.  Sub-Identify, as you 
know, needs additional corrections in tests.  And so on.  So many of 
these distros may turn out to be perfectly fine once their prerequisites 
build/configure/test correctly with PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC = 0.

> ( Otherwise I can see some entries in that list and I don't know why
> they're there, because I've not seen any reports )
>