Bug#902557: transition: Perl 5.28
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:27:08PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> Forwarded: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.28.html
> Perl 5.28 is in experimental and we'd like to get it into buster
> at some point, so filing this a bit pre-emptively.
Hi, update on this: all the known blockers are now resolved. In
particular, qt4-perl is no longer required by debconf (thanks Colin!),
and has been requested for removal in #904583.
> We still want to do a full archive test rebuild soonish: as perl-base is
> essential and perl is transitively build essential, there are implicit
> build dependencies in the archive that we haven't covered yet. I don't
> expect much fallout though. I'll update this bug once we have more data.
This has been delayed due to a shortage of disk space on perl.debian.net.
We've only been able to test rebuild the 3000 or so packages directly
depending on perl.
I believe Damyan (cc'd) is now separately testing the whole archive
against Perl 5.28 on his own gear. Last I heard it should be finished
in about a week and the first 20% or so hadn't yielded any regressions,
but maybe he can give a status update?
--
Niko
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