Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition
We'd like to have Perl 5.24 in stretch. Packages have been in experimental since May, and we've been doing test rebuilds with those. Issues are tracked with the usertag debian-p...@lists.debian.org / perl-5.24-transition and can be seen at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.24-transition;users=debian-p...@lists.debian.org The worst blockers are currently libdata-alias-perl (#825011) and net-snmp (#825014), and there are still a few other build failures with fewer reverse dependencies. I'll mark this bug as blocked by those soon. There are no major packaging changes with 5.24, but this is the first time that the new libperl package (libperl5.24) is coinstallable with the older one (libperl5.22). Some upgrade testing is still needed, but we do not expect this to cause trouble. To make testing easier, we are making our rebuilt binary packages available and updating them automatically when there are new sid uploads. These rebuilt binary packages are compatible with perl_5.24.0-1 in experimental, and we do not expect any further ABI changes or the like. Please see <http://perl.debian.net/> for instructions, and note that these should be only used on throwaway test systems. Help with upgrade testing would be very welcome, hence copying the debian-perl list. Greetings from DebConf16 in sunny Cape Town! Ben file: title = "perl"; is_affected = .depends ~ "libperl5.22" | .depends ~ /perlapi-5\.22\..*/ | .depends ~ "libperl5.24" | .depends ~ /perlapi-5\.24\..*/; is_good = .depends ~ "libperl5.24" | .depends ~ /perlapi-5\.24\..*/; is_bad = .depends ~ "libperl5.22" | .depends ~ /perlapi-5\.22\..*/; -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-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)
