Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
Perl 5.22.2 is to be released on Sunday 24th April or so. A release candidate is currently in experimental. This is a stable update with just bugfix changes, see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpolicy.html#MAINTENANCE-BRANCHES for the upstream policy. As usual with a Perl minor release, four packages will need a binNMU: libpar-packer-perl libdevel-cover-perl libclass-xsaccessor-perl libcommon-sense-perl Also, libmodule-corelist-perl and libperl-apireference-perl will need sourceful uploads. I'll take care of the former unless somebody in pkg-perl beats me to it. The latter will start to FTBFS until upstream adds support for 5.22.2, but it can be removed from testing temporarily if necessary. As you can see, this is a very small transition. Please let us know if we can upload to unstable straight away when 5.22.2 is released, or if we should hold off for some reason. Ben file (maybe): title = "perl5.22.2"; is_affected = .depends ~ /perl (<< 5.22/ is_good = .depends ~ "perl (<< 5.22.3~)" is_bad = .depends ~ "perl (<< 5.22.2~)" -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
