perl post-wheezy

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 11:10:44PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:52:48PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:25:14AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > > > - debian/released-versions needs an update. The current version needs
> > > >   to be there for it to appear in the perlapi-* substvar.
> 
> Hum, clarification. Quoting README.source:
>    debian/released-versions
>     contains a list of released Debian versions, used by the
>     debian/mkprovides script to generate a list of perlapi-<ver>
>     provides for perl-base indicating the released versions the package
>     is compatible with.
> 
> It looks like the current version does not actually need to be
> in the list, only earlier versions that we want to include
> in the perlapi-<ver> list.
> 
> Still, having the current version there doesn't seem to hurt, as we just
> released wheezy like that. So I suppose it should be on the upgrading
> checklist (if we actually had one :)

There's a bit of a checklist at <http://wiki.debian.org/PerlMaintenance>.

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