Bug#796345: Status report on perl 5.22 transition readiness (30th Sept)
On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 12:43:07PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 11:10:54PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Niko has uploaded 5.22.1-RC3 to experimental and we should see
> > 5.22.1 final in a few days.
> >
> > I'm rebuilding all the packages involved in the perlapi transition
> > against 5.22.1, and spotted a couple of issues which I've marked as
> > blockers. I've uploaded a delayed fix for the courier issue (#804603)
> > and the other one I've spotted so far has been redhat-cluster, which
> > I presume we'll just remove from testing given its recent track
> > record?
> >
> > Once 5.22.1 final has been released, I don't think there is anything
> > else stopping us from uploading that to unstable, assuming that no
> > more problems come to light first.
>
> Current status: 5.22.1 is still looking likely in the next few days.
> As of now this bug is blocked by the following:
>
> #807492: libmath-bigint-gmp-perl: FTBFS on 32 bit platforms
>
> This is a fairly new bug and there is a fix pending - we would
> ideally get some feedback from upstream, but if not we can upload it
> at around the same time as perl.
>
> As I already mentioned, redhat-cluster currently FTBFS, and has done
> since August, so I don't think we should block on that.
>
> Emilio, do you agree with this assessment? If so can we upload
> 5.22.1 to unstable when it's released?
>
> I think we should probably do a d-d-a mail either now or at the time
> of the upload, so I'll do that once you give the go-ahead.
5.22.1 is now released upstream.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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