On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 03:07:17PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 07:52:17PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 21:45 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > Upstream recently released 5.14.3, which is a bugfix only stable > > > update. We're assuming that importing this into wheezy is out of question > > > at this point, but please let us know if you'd be willing to entertain > > > that option. The upstream rules for stable updates are quite strict; > > > see the 'MAINTENANCE BRANCHES' section in perlpolicy(1) of the perl-doc > > > package for details. > > > > In principle it doesn't sound entirely unreasonable, but I'd like a > > little more information as to the specific fixes included. > Moving to 5.14.3 would have the advantage that it will reduce Debian's > patch count and therefore make later analysis and patch management/triage > a bit easier; it will need to be accompanied by a new > libmodule-corelist-perl package for consistency. I'm not aware at this > stage of any other external changes needed. libpar-packer-perl, libdevel-cover-perl, and libclass-xsaccessor-perl would need binNMUs to become installable with 5.14.3. libperl-apireference-perl would start to FTBFS and would need a source fix. -- Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
