Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:53:52PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Is there progress on the implementation of this feature ?
> 
> So far there are a single second and Niko partial objection.
> 
> For my part, I think this is important that the feature be documented (if implemented)
> but not necessarily in policy, at least until it is more than a proof of concept.

The functionality was implemented in 5.12.3-2; it reached unstable
at the start of May and was announced to d-d-a here:

<http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg00006.html>

Cheers,
Dominic.

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