[Koha-devel] HTTP::OAI version issues

[Jonathan Druart]

Do we know who decided to upgrade to the new version of the module in testing?

2015-12-14 3:50 GMT+00:00 David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>:
> Hi all:
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> 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.
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> 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&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&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
> and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> David Cook
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