474761 - different Perl module requirements (e.g. CGI.pm)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 471060

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[Ulrich Windl]

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New versions of bugzilla (too often) require newer Perl modules. For 3.2 there is a conflict: ./checksetup.pl first reports that CGI.pm 3.21 (I have 3.15) is required, then again it says that CGI.pm 3.11 is optionally required.

I think that the first requirement woul fullfill the second. What's unclear if theose versions are really required.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ./checksetup.pl --check-modules

Actual Results:  
Various requirements are reported

Expected Results:  
The requirements should be consistent.

Comment 1

[Ulrich Windl]

It would be nice if the bugzilla requirements for Perl modules would consider what common "enterprise distributions" (e.g. SLES10) ship. Bugzilla 3.2 needs newer modules than what the most recent SLES10 SP2 plus online-updates provides.

Also, as just reported, DBD-mysql fails to configure with MySQL 5.0.26 on SLES10 SP2. Such things make bugzilla upgrades painful.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

This problem has already been fixed and will be included in Bugzilla 3.2.1.