Re: perl 5.18 progress
On 2013-05-20 01:54, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> writes:
>
>> perl 5.18.0 was released today, and we're already well on the way to
>> having it ready for upload to sid. However, it might be a month or more
>> before it's ready from our end. Would you prefer to have a transition
>> bug opened now, before our schedule become clear, or later on?
Hi,
I suspect anytime you have an idea of the scope of the transition and
what packages will be affected would be a good time to file the bug.
>
> Be aware that Perl 5.18.0 includes podlators 2.5.1, which means that
> pod2man now exits with an error by default if there are POD syntax errors.
> I believe this means that some fairly large percentage of the packages
> with the manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man will FTBFS once this becomes the
> default version of Perl.
>
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man.html
>
Looks like at least 50 packages that will start to FTBFS if I am reading
that graph right. Personally, I would appreciate that these packages
were fixed before we started the transition to avoid making the
transition longer than it has to be.
~Niels
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