Re: perl 5.24 ETA

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 02:39:33PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Dear Perl Team,
> 
> for the recently released biber/biblatex packages I am in need
> of perl 5.24, and as long as we don't have it all the TeX Live
> updates are blocked due to dependencies.
> 
> I can in principle back out changes to all biblatex related packages,
> but this is a huge pain, so I would like to ask whether you have
> an approximate ETA for 5.24 in sid.

Hi Norbert,

I hope that we can get perl 5.24 uploaded within the next 7 days, subject
to release team final approval, completion of a final round of QA, etc.

Cheers,
Dominic.