[Koha-devel] HTTP::OAI version issues

[David Cook]

Hi all:

 

Frédéric, Jonathan, Héctor, and I have chatted a bit on
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14939 about the
fact that HTTP::OAI version 4.03 is fundamentally broken.

 

While this might not have much of an impact now, since version 3.27 is used
in all stable and older versions of Debian
(https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libhttp-oai-perl
<https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libhttp-oai-perl&searchon=names
&suite=all&section=all> &searchon=names&suite=all&section=all), version 4.03
is used in one “stable” version of Ubuntu, and is scheduled to be part of
the next LTS release in April 2016
(http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libhttp-oai-perl
<http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libhttp-oai-perl&searchon=names&
suite=all&section=all> &searchon=names&suite=all&section=all and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases).

 

If anyone is using or will use those releases, they’re probably going to
find it impossible to use any OAI-PMH functionality in Koha. 

 

I don’t foresee this being a problem in Debian
 while 4.03 is in testing and
unstable, I suspect the Debian folk will either patch the problems or use
3.27 in the next stable release.

 

I haven’t tested Ubuntu yet to see whether or not it’s been patched. The
version in Debian testing has had some alterations, although I think
Jonathan was using the 4.03-1 version in Debian testing and found problems.

 

Anyway, I’m just wondering what we should do about this. Frédéric is in the
process of contacting the module maintainer, but I’m predicting that the
maintainer won’t respond. 

 

Can we make koha-common depend on the older version of libhttp-oai-perl?
Should we package our own version of the module? Should we double-check
Ubuntu and report bugs there with the hope that they downgrade to the
functional version of libhttp-oai-perl?

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

 

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