Re: perl version depends

[Martin Schulze <joey@murphy.novare.net>]

Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> >Thus I believe it would need to use (>= 5.005-0)
> 
> But it would also have to use (<< 5.006-0).

I don't think this is a problem.

> >(I thought that debian-devel had reached a consensous that it's not
> >a good idea to change the perl version less than 14 days before
> >the code freeze.)
> 
> I didn't realize this.  I saw the comment from Manoj but I also saw
> several others that said they wanted to see it.  We can back out the
> release if need be.  This should be done soon though.  I'll still upload 
> a new version tonight.

Since the freeze is in 7 days and I don't believe that we can fix all
incompatibilities wrt the new version of perl as well as re-compiling all
perl packages *after* the main perl package has stabilized, I would like
to go back to the old version of perl.

My proposal with this version of perl was 7 more days ago.  Read: we lost
7 days of integrating perl.

Another solution would be a) to postpone the freeze for some time or b)
allow fixed perl uploads within the freeze.

Regards,

	Joey

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