Bug#807038: Perl 5.22.1-RC3 is now available!

[Steve Hay]

On 4 December 2015 at 12:42, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 10:17:44PM +0000, Steve Hay via perl5-porters wrote:
>
>> ***Please, please, please*** test your code against perl-5.22.1-RC3.
>> This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
>> v5.22.1 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.22.1 than
>> for v5.22.2!
>
> Hi, we're seeing t/op/sprintf2.t failures on Debian powerpc and ppc64.
>
>  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=perl&arch=powerpc&ver=5.22.1~rc3-1&stamp=1449230321
>  https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=perl&arch=ppc64&ver=5.22.1~rc3-1&stamp=1449231009
>
> I've reproduced these with the pristine 5.22.1-RC3 (no Debian
> modifications) and just './Configure -des'.

For the record, this should now be fixed in maint-5.22 by

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/a0a02d15d36b673efaac1e8c47f5cbb17dbffe0d
http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/51b08a51ddedbde437e8f79b55ab9f6313b0c58a

and will shortly appear in an RC4. Thanks for testing.