Bug#734650: transition: perl 5.18.2

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Wed Jan 8 20:52:00 UTC 2014


Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
X-Debbugs-Cc: perl at packages.debian.org

Perl 5.18.2 was released on Monday. This is an ABI-compatible maintenance
release, see the upstream policy at
 http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.14.0/pod/perlpolicy.pod#MAINTENANCE_BRANCHES

I've just uploaded perl_5.18.2-1 to experimental. Dominic is going to
run a test rebuild of at least the perl related packages next, but we
don't expect regressions.

Affected packages that we know of are (hope I got this right)

 is_affected: ".depends ~ /perl \(<< 5\.18/"
 bad:  ".depends ~ /perl \(<< 5\.18\.2/"
 good: ".depends ~ /perl \(<< 5\.18\.3/"

which would currently yield

 nmu libpar-packer-perl_1.017-1 . ALL . -m 'rebuild for Perl 5.18.2'
 nmu libdevel-cover-perl_1.08-1 . ALL . -m 'rebuild for Perl 5.18.2'
 nmu libclass-xsaccessor-perl_1.19-1 . ALL . -m 'rebuild for Perl 5.18.2'
 nmu libcommon-sense-perl_3.72-2 . ALL . -m 'rebuild for Perl 5.18.2'

Additionally, libmodule-corelist-perl will need a source upload
to upgrade to at least 3.03.

Thanks for your work,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org




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