Bug#753529: transition: perl 5.20

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.20.html

On 02/07/14 21:17, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-perl@lists.debian.org
> 
> We'd like to get Perl 5.20 in jessie, so I guess it's best to push this
> on the radar now.
> 
> Things aren't nearly ready yet, but most of the known blockers should be
> easy to fix, with the possible exceptions of #753257 in perl/kfreebsd-amd64
> and #750240 in libapache2-mod-perl2.
> 
> I've done test rebuilds of lib*-perl packages + libperl5.18 and
> perlapi-5.18.* reverse dependencies. Bugs are tracked at
> 
>  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.20-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org
> 
> and we're currently at
> 
>     58 Outstanding
>     9 Forwarded
>     7 Pending Upload
>     41 Resolved
> 
> Ben file (I hope):
> 
> title = "perl";
> is_affected = .depends ~ /perlapi-5.|libperl5./;
> is_good = .depends ~ /perlapi-5.2|libperl5.2/;
> is_bad  = .depends ~ /perlapi-5.1|libperl5.1/;

I've reused the old ben file for the 5.18 transition instead, which seems more
complete.

Let's look at this when the list of unfixed bugs gets down to a minimum. Please
ping us when that happens.

Thanks for your work!

Cheers,
Emilio