Bug#830200: transition: perl
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.24.html
On 07/07/16 12:55, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
>
> We'd like to have Perl 5.24 in stretch.
>
> Packages have been in experimental since May, and we've been doing
> test rebuilds with those. Issues are tracked with the usertag
> debian-perl@lists.debian.org / perl-5.24-transition and can be seen at
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.24-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org
>
> The worst blockers are currently libdata-alias-perl (#825011) and net-snmp
> (#825014), and there are still a few other build failures with fewer
> reverse dependencies. I'll mark this bug as blocked by those soon.
OK. Please let us know when you think things are ready to start.
> There are no major packaging changes with 5.24, but this is the first
> time that the new libperl package (libperl5.24) is coinstallable with
> the older one (libperl5.22). Some upgrade testing is still needed,
> but we do not expect this to cause trouble.
Is that going to make a difference? Given modules depend on perlapi-*, which is
provided by perl-base, and so you can't co-install perlapi-5.22.x and
perlapi-5.24.y.
> Greetings from DebConf16 in sunny Cape Town!
We haven't met yet! We should fix that :)
Cheers,
Emilio
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