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[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@xxxxxxxxx>]

Install log attached from Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 LTS

** Description changed:

- I am surprised nobody reported this as a bug, so I have created it as a
- placeholder.
+ Please backport libcoro-perl 6.490-1 (universe) from yakkety to xenial.
+ 
+ Reason for the backport:
+ ========================
+ This package was removed from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before release because it failed to build and had no reverse dependencies. The build failure was fixed in May and the package is now back in Ubuntu "yakkety" and Debian testing.
+ 
+ " Deleted on 2016-03-19 by Steve Langasek FTBFS with perl 5.22; Debian
+ bug #787500 "
+ 
+ Testing:
+ ========
+ Mark off items in the checklist [X] as you test them, but please leave the checklist so that backporters can quickly evaluate the state of testing.
+ 
+ * xenial:
+ [X] Package builds without modification
+ [ ] libcoro-perl-dbgsym installs cleanly and runs
+ [X] libcoro-perl installs cleanly and runs
+ 
+ No reverse dependencies
+ 
+ I don't use this package so all I tested was whether it built and
+ installed. - Jeremy
+ 
+ More info:
+ ==========
+ https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcoro-perl/+publishinghistory
+ https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libcoro-perl
+ https://bugs.debian.org/787500
+ 
+ https://launchpad.net/~jbicha/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+sourcepub/6713944/+listing-archive-extra
+ (test build for xenial. Please don't add this PPA [or at least add, install what you need and promptly disable again] since I push random packages to my personal PPAs and don't want to provide support for them.)
+ 
+ Changes since the removed version in xenial:
+ ============================================
+ libcoro-perl (6.490-1) unstable; urgency=medium
+ 
+   * Team upload.
+ 
+   [ Lucas Kanashiro ]
+   * Add debian/upstream/metadata
+   * Import upstream version 6.470
+   * Add libcanary-stability-perl as build dependency
+   * Declare compliance with Debian policy 3.9.6
+   * Add autopkgtest-pkg-perl
+ 
+   [ gregor herrmann ]
+   * Update years of upstream copyright.
+ 
+   [ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
+   * debian/control: Use HTTPS transport protocol for Vcs-Git URI
+ 
+   [ gregor herrmann ]
+   * New upstream release 6.490.
+   * Set bindnow linker flag in debian/rules.
+   * Fix duplicate word in debian/copyright. Thanks to lintian.
+   * Add more corrections to spelling.patch.
+   * Add libnet-http-perl to Recommends. Thanks to autopkgtest.
+   * Declare compliance with Debian Policy 3.9.8.
+   * debian/copyright: change Copyright-Format 1.0 URL to HTTPS.
+ 
+   [ Dominic Hargreaves ]
+   * Add patch to fix compatibility with perl 5.22+.
+     Closes: #787500. This patch is not supported by the upstream
+     author, who only supports Coro with a fork of perl called 'stableperl'
+     (which is not part of Debian).
+ 
+  -- Dominic Hargreaves  Sun, 22 May 2016 14:09:30 +0100
+ 
+ Original bug report
+ ===================
+ I am surprised nobody reported this as a bug, so I have created it as a placeholder.
  
  Anyone who searches for the present status of Coro with Perl 5.22 will
  quickly find there are maintenance problems due to differences of
  opinion.  Builds fail, and it is understandable that it would be dropped
  or deprioritised.
  
  On the other hand, it does have a number of innocent users who have done
  nothing wrong except use it, and dependent packages that fail to build,
  and it's not easy to replace its functionality.
  
  It's an unpleasant surprise to upgrade a server to Ubuntu 16.04 and find
  a load of Perl code stopped working which is difficult to fix (without
  rearchitecting applications), simply due to the minor version change to
  Perl 5.22 which isn't supposed to break that much.
  
  There are a few proposed patches around.  However this patch by Nicholas
  Clark is the only one I've seen that makes the claim to avoid affecting
  the Perl installation or binary compatibility:
  
  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236195.html
  
  I don't know if that patch is adequate but if it is, given the LTS
  status of Ubuntu 16.04 meaning it is unlikely to change Perl minor
  version, if that patch makes libcoro-perl work and the dependent
  packages build again, it would seem a good thing to do.

** Attachment added: "libcoro-perl-install.log"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcoro-perl/+bug/1579552/+attachment/4698970/+files/libcoro-perl-install.log

** Also affects: xenial-backports
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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