Re: [steve.m.hay@googlemail.com: Perl 5.20.2 is now available!]

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2015-02-16 21:45, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> [...]
> Hi release team,
> 
> See
> 
> <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2015-February/004667.html>
> 
> where I have summarised some possibly-relevant fixes from the latest 
> stable release of perl. Many of them are regressions from what we have
> in wheezy.
> 
> By themselves none of them are release critical but there is quite a
> bundle of changes. Do you think there is any point in trying to get these
> into Jessie before release? I think there'd be an argument for them
> going in in a point release if not.
> 
> It'd probably be safest to actually import 5.20.2 rather than cherry pick
> all the right patches from that long list. I realise that this falls
> some way outside the current freeze policy, so feel free to tell me to
> go away :)
> 
> Note: there's one bug currently filed at RC to consider fixing in 
> perl: #777556.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dominic.
> 
> 

I do feel it is not quite in the spirit of the freeze-policy.  Though
having reviewed the concrete upstream changes, commit-by-commit, I would
be willing to accept those (upstream) changes for Jessie.

That said, my approval assumes there will be no changes on the debian
side (beyond dropping patches applied upstream and a changelog entry).
If there are other changes to debian/, they will need to be approved
separately.

Thanks,
~Niels