[Koha-devel] HTTP::OAI version issues

[David Cook]

I'm guessing Harlan Lieberman-Berg based on https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libhttp-oai-perl.git/log/

https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=H.LiebermanBerg@gmail.com



David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Druart
> Sent: Monday, 14 December 2015 7:11 PM
> To: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] HTTP::OAI version issues
> 
> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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&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).
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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