Perl 5.14 packaging underway

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Thu Apr 28 21:08:26 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 09:10:13PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:29:57PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:00:55AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:16:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > > If we are pushing ahead with 5.12, we could do with fixing these, though.
> > > > Would it make sense to commit your tool to perl-5.12?
> > > 
> > > I suppose so. I didn't want to be invasive so I started with just 5.14.
> > > I don't (currently) intend to change the tool very much, so forking it
> > > shouldn't a big problem.
> 
> > Okay, done (and fixed discrepancies).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> I see there's a bug in Module::Corelist in 5.12.3:
> 
> % perl -Idist/Module-CoreList/lib -MModule::CoreList -E 'say $Module::CoreList::VERSION; say $Module::CoreList::version{5.012003}{Module::CoreList}'
> 2.43
> 2.38
> 
> This has been fixed later with
>  http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/a0a0e5450c8a47684a1d0a4c7cb597974ad56ab1
> 
> It might make sense to cherry-pick the fix for the Debian package.
> In any case, the Breaks: list should clearly have 2.43.

Well spotted; now fixed.

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