Bug#777597: [steve.m.hay at googlemail.com: Perl 5.20.2 is now available!]

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:58:54PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On 2015-02-16 21:45, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > [...]
> > Hi release team,
> > 
> > See
> > 
> > <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2015-February/004667.html>
> > 
> > where I have summarised some possibly-relevant fixes from the latest 
> > stable release of perl. Many of them are regressions from what we have
> > in wheezy.
> > 
> > By themselves none of them are release critical but there is quite a
> > bundle of changes. Do you think there is any point in trying to get these
> > into Jessie before release? I think there'd be an argument for them
> > going in in a point release if not.
> > 
> > It'd probably be safest to actually import 5.20.2 rather than cherry pick
> > all the right patches from that long list. I realise that this falls
> > some way outside the current freeze policy, so feel free to tell me to
> > go away :)
> > 
> > Note: there's one bug currently filed at RC to consider fixing in 
> > perl: #777556.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Dominic.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I do feel it is not quite in the spirit of the freeze-policy.  Though
> having reviewed the concrete upstream changes, commit-by-commit, I would
> be willing to accept those (upstream) changes for Jessie.
> 
> That said, my approval assumes there will be no changes on the debian
> side (beyond dropping patches applied upstream and a changelog entry).
> If there are other changes to debian/, they will need to be approved
> separately.

Hi Niels,

Thanks. I've now uploaded 5.20.2-1, which includes changes related to
other RC bugs as well as the new upstream release. I've filed a binNMU
bug for the packages that need rebuilding as a result.

I'll ping this thread again when all packages related to perl 5.20.2
and #777597 are ready to be unblocked.

Cheers,
Dominic.