perl post-wheezy

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 04:24:22PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 12:07:31PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:52:48PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > > Summary: Perl 5.18-RC0 is out, so it looks like we're going to skip 5.16
> > > in sid/jessie. There's a debian-5.17 branch based on 5.17.11 on the git
> > > repo that will probably be renamed debian-5.18 soon.
> > 
> > Just to clarify, it's not quite out yet, but the final preparations
> > are being made.
> 
> OK, 5.18.0-RC1 really is out now, and I've got a new debian-5.18 branch
> mostly ready, based on the debian-5.17 one.
> 
> Dominic, are you OK with me pushing that or do you actually want to redo
> the merge?

As also discussed off-list, this is fine - I've pushed this now.

Next steps (not strictly ordered):

- file ITP/RFP bugs for deprecated modules
- upload initial version to experimental
- run test rebuilds

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