Re: Texinfo 7.0.90 pretest on CentOS 8-stream (Unicode::Collate)

[Norbert Preining]

Hi all,

a few comments out of the off, since I am not responsible for anything
in Debian anymore, but I still remember a few bits and pieces, as well
as faced the very same problem just recently.

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/348090/ "Re: Redhat perl != perl"
> > https://lwn.net/Articles/348084/ "On properly packaging perl"
> 
> This seems to be an old change that was reverted afterwards.

I don't know the current state, but Debian/Ubuntu ships perl-core that
are the binary pars, and perl-modules which are the arch-independent
parts, and perl which depends on those two. The descriptions clearly
state that perl should be installed.

Unfortunately, I recently learned (via tinytex issue) that conda seems
to install only perl-core without perl-modules, which breaks a "few"
things.

Reading the above two articles, I can only slap my face that Fedora
named perl-core the superset of perl ... even I as non-native shiver
from this stupidity.

> Without Unicode::Collate the issue is not only that the test suite does
> not pass, but also texi2any will fail in any case.

This has been going back an forth over the last years. If needed, I can
search through git history, but in Debian it was a back an forth between
Unicode:Collate and the internal stuff, sometimes one failed/succeeded
and the other succeeded/failed, but it was rather random.

Best regards

Norbert

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