Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Ah, what happened here is that this is picking up the perl package >> built on 12.3 (i.e., the earliest supported FreeBSD 12.x) which added >> strerror_l. >> https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=d3912bec58d0b82509a0973cae02f156986d88fa > > OK, so it is expected that the Cirrus 12.2 image would install this newer > version of the perl package which if I understand correctly is not compatible > with this version ? > > Is there a way to tell pkg not to update packages to incompatible versions, > or is the FreeBSD policy that as soon as a release is marked as unsupported, > then no guarantee is made that things (like installing packages) continue working > on that version ? Sorry for a noise, but I would also be curious to know, as it is quite unexpected for a packaging system to miss such a compatibility issue and for a distro to not care. >> I expect this could have been addressed also by updating to 12.3. >> Cirrus also supports "matrix" so both could be tested. > > For now we opted to just update to 12.3, see [1]. Indeed we did. Let's make sure we fast-track the topic down to 'master' and possibly to 'maint'. I do not think it is worth letting it sit in 'next' for a week, like we do for usual topics. Thanks. P.S. I'll be offline today (like every other Tuesday).
