Bug#691185: pre-approval: perl/5.14.2-15
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 03:07:17PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 07:52:17PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 21:45 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > Upstream recently released 5.14.3, which is a bugfix only stable
> > > update. We're assuming that importing this into wheezy is out of question
> > > at this point, but please let us know if you'd be willing to entertain
> > > that option. The upstream rules for stable updates are quite strict;
> > > see the 'MAINTENANCE BRANCHES' section in perlpolicy(1) of the perl-doc
> > > package for details.
> >
> > In principle it doesn't sound entirely unreasonable, but I'd like a
> > little more information as to the specific fixes included.
> Moving to 5.14.3 would have the advantage that it will reduce Debian's
> patch count and therefore make later analysis and patch management/triage
> a bit easier; it will need to be accompanied by a new
> libmodule-corelist-perl package for consistency. I'm not aware at this
> stage of any other external changes needed.
libpar-packer-perl, libdevel-cover-perl, and libclass-xsaccessor-perl would
need binNMUs to become installable with 5.14.3.
libperl-apireference-perl would start to FTBFS and would need a source
fix.
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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