perl5 update 5.34 --> 5.36

11 June 2022, 15:35:09

I run artix and armtix. Noticed recently that my volwheel trayicon widget stopped working.

I think that's because perl has upgraded to 5.36. Volwheel uses Gtk2 and I find now that there's no module gtk2-perl which is present in Arch. Likewise I assume that various other older perl modules are not available.

I see these modules used to be present in perl 5.34 there are dangling pkg contents in /usr/lib/perl5/5.34.

Will these gtk2-perl packages eventually get updates? Or is there a way to get hold of these modules using perl's mechanisms. I'm not a perl person so don't know a lot about perl updates.

I looked at the ownership of the vendor packages and see this

$ sudo pacman -Qo /usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/
/usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/ is owned by cairo-perl 1.108-1
/usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/ is owned by glib-perl 1.329.3-2
/usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/ is owned by gtk2-perl 1.24993-3
/usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/ is owned by pango-perl 1.227-14
/usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/ is owned by perl-extutils-depends 0.8001-2
/usr/lib/perl5/5.34/vendor_perl/ is owned by perl-gtk2-trayicon 0.07-1

would those be the packages I need to re-build?

Re: perl5 update 5.34 --> 5.36

Reply #1 – 11 June 2022, 16:34:51

Those packages should all be available in the Arch repos at least and they were rebuilt against the newer perl. We currently don't carry those in Artix (although we definitely could import a few).

Re: perl5 update 5.34 --> 5.36

Reply #2 – 12 June 2022, 14:21:03

yes these are all in Arch repo for x86_64; for armtix I copied the PKGBUILD added aarch64 to the arch list and built with makepkg.