Bug#691185: pre-approval: perl/5.14.2-15
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.
Hi Adam,
Dominic covered this nicely, but in case you want all the details:
I've put full debdiffs of a proposed 5.14.3-1 available on
http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/perl_5.14.2-14_5.14.3-1.debdiff
http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/perl_5.14.2-15_5.14.3-1.debdiff
One is against the current sid/wheezy version (5.14.2-14) and the
other against the acked 5.14.2-15. There's some unfortunate churn in
debian/patches due to the tool we're using to prepare them (git-dpm),
sorry about that.
These are based on the ntyni/debian-5.14.3 branch of
git://anonscm.debian.org/perl/perl.git
Hope this helps a bit.
> +perl (5.14.2-15) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> These look fine; thanks.
Thank you for the review!
As things are, I'm not proceeding with this 5.14.2-15 until you've
reached a decision about 5.14.3.
However, please let us know if you'd like to decouple the issues and
we'll get -15 in sid right away (read: "probably next weekend" :)
--
Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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