On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 08:51:09PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.24.html > > On 07/07/16 12:55, Niko Tyni wrote:
> OK. Please let us know when you think things are ready to start. Sure, will do. > > 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. Not much difference, but there are some packages linking just against libperl without needing perlapi-*, usually to embed a Perl interpreter. Examples include linux-perf-* and postgresql-plperl-*. The libperl* version coinstallability makes it possible to keep old versions of these around while upgrading the system perl. -- Niko
