Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.24.html
On 07/07/16 12:55, Niko Tyni wrote: > 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. OK. Please let us know when you think things are ready to start. > 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. Is that going to make a difference? Given modules depend on perlapi-*, which is provided by perl-base, and so you can't co-install perlapi-5.22.x and perlapi-5.24.y. > Greetings from DebConf16 in sunny Cape Town! We haven't met yet! We should fix that :) Cheers, Emilio
