Bug#830200: transition: perl
On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 08:51:09PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.24.html
>
> On 07/07/16 12:55, Niko Tyni wrote:
> OK. Please let us know when you think things are ready to start.
Sure, will do.
> > 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.
Not much difference, but there are some packages linking just
against libperl without needing perlapi-*, usually to embed a Perl
interpreter. Examples include linux-perf-* and postgresql-plperl-*. The
libperl* version coinstallability makes it possible to keep old versions
of these around while upgrading the system perl.
--
Niko
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