Re: Perl 5.16 in experimental
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:22:36PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Perl 5.16 was uploaded to experimental earlier today. This is obviously
> a post-wheezy targetted activity, but I thought it would be useful to get
> some early visibility of the scope of issues this time round anyway.
>
> The initial XS package rebuild results do not look bad; I've identified
> around 13 perl 5.16 specific problems so far and will try and file bugs
> for them this evening (no arch: all perl testing yet). Those bugs are
> being tagged with perl-5.16-transition:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.16-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org
>
> The results of the rebuild are available for i386 at
>
> http://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/test/perl-5.16-setup.txt.asc
>
> as before; you should be able to install perl from experimental together
> with this extra apt source list entry to test most packages with perl 5.16.
> Please note that this should not be attempted on any non-throwaway system
> at this stage.
I've updated this for 5.16.1 (just add .1 in your sources.list). Upgrades will be a bit messy for packages
whose versions haven't changed since the last build - sorry about
that).
http://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/test/perl-5.16.1-setup.txt.asc
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