Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock X-Debbugs-Cc: p...@packages.debian.org
Hi release team, as discussed in #691185, please consider Perl 5.14.3 for wheezy. Beside the PR benefits of releasing with a fresh version, shipping 5.14.3 would allow us to drop 17 patches that have been merged upstream. The upstream rules for stable updates are quite strict; see the 'MAINTENANCE BRANCHES' section in perlpolicy(1) of the perl-doc package for details. The full diff against 5.14.2-15 (in sid, unblocked for wheezy) is at http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/perl_5.14.3-1.gitdiff http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/perl_5.14.3-1.debdiff The first is generated with 'git diff', and I recommend it over the second one due to a deficiency in debdiff (see #688219). filterdiff -p1 --exclude=pod/\* --exclude=debian/patches/\* --exclude=README\* --exclude=AUTHORS gives 41 files changed, 1024 insertions(+), 248 deletions(-) of which 660 insertions are in Module::CoreList. Full upstream changelog: http://search.cpan.org/~dom/perl-5.14.3/pod/perldelta.pod Debian packaging: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=perl/perl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ntyni/debian-5.14.3 This would include a small transition: libpar-packer-perl, libdevel-cover-perl, and libclass-xsaccessor-perl would need binNMUs to become installable with 5.14.3. A newer libmodule-corelist-perl would also be needed. libperl-apireference-perl would start to FTBFS. 5.14.3 support was added upstream in 0.10, and Dominic has prepared an updated package in the pkg-perl git repository. -- 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
