[dom@earth.li: transition: perl 5.22]
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----- Forwarded message from Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> -----
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:35:24 +0100
From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: transition: perl 5.22
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
Hello,
This is a tracking bug for the planned transition to perl 5.22. We
would like this to be considered for sometime after the gcc-5 transition,
and expect to be mostly ready to go within the next few weeks.
The current stats for this transition are as follows:
* Number of binNMUs needed: 571[1]
* Number of arch:any packages which FTBFS with perl 5.22: 9
* 1 fix in DELAYED; 2 mostly fixed but awaiting upload; 6 needing
more work or removal.
* The most significant problem at the moment is libapache2-mod-perl2,
where upstream have not yet provided support for perl 5.22 (help
welcome: #787493).
For most of the others[2] removal is a plausible option.
* Number of arch:all packages which FTBFS with perl 5.22: approx 60[3]
* We obviously need to get this number down; most of them are
fairly straightforward changes that the pkg-perl will hopefully
be able to help with (either because they are team maintained, or
via NMUs)
* I am still waiting for the results of another mass-rebuild, and
to retest some corner cases, so a few new bugs may still be
reported, but we now have the vast majority of them
The version of perl we expect to upload to unstable will differ from that
currently in experimental (5.22.0-2) in including (hopefully) changes
which will make the package fully reproducible, as well as a few other
minor fixes. We don't expect these changes to reveal any further
compatibility issues. It's also just possible that perl 5.22.1 will be
released before we go ahead with the transition (it's currently scheduled
for some time in September) in which case it would be better to use that
for the transition.
The other change worth mentioning is the introduction of a revised
package layout (option 'S' in [4]). We will send a mail out to
debian-devel prior to the transition starting, explaining this and
other general information.
Hopefully I've covered everything I need to at this point, but just
let me now if anything needs clarifying.
Cheers,
Dominic (for the perl and pkg-perl teams)
[1] <https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl.html>
[2] libdata-alias-perl, libb-hooks-op-check-entersubforcv-perl,
libdata-dump-streamer-perl, libdevel-findref-perl,
libcoro-perl
[3] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.22-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org>
[4] <https://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/libperl/>
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