Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Control: affects -1 + src:perl User: [email protected] Usertags: transition
Hi, I'd like to get Perl 5.42 from experimental to unstable + testing. Apologies that I'm so terribly late with this. I'll skip my excuses, but I'm copying the debian-perl list with a request for help. Please contact me if you want to help with maintaining Perl in Debian. Clearly the current setup is not sustainable anymore. Perl 5.42 was released last summer and has been in experimental since August. As usual, I've run rebuild testing and a couple of debci test rounds with it. Bugs are at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.42-transition;[email protected] I'm not aware of any showstoppers. but I note that #1140169 in perl-tk was causing CI regressions in libconfig-model-itself-perl for some time with Perl 5.42.2-1. The real bug is in perl-tk, but it may well bite again with any Perl binary changes. Perl 5.44 was expected to be released already, but I understand there's been some delay and nobody knows how long it will take. I think it still makes sense for us to get 5.42 into forky at this point, and then consider 5.44 separately. I'll run one more round of test rebuilds with the packages that will need a binNMU in the next few days, but I don't expect any related regressions. Of course, general flux in unstable could still cause unforeseen issues. Please let me know when you have a transition window available, or if you have any concerns about the transition. Many thanks for your work on the release. Ben file: title = "perl"; is_affected = .depends ~ "libperl5.40" | .depends ~ "perl-modules-5.40" | .depends ~ "libperl5.42" | .depends ~ "perl-modules-5.42"; is_good = .depends ~ "libperl5.42" | .depends ~ "perl-modules-5.42"; is_bad = .depends ~ "libperl5.40" | .depends ~ "perl-modules-5.40";
