Bug#879529: transition: perl 5.26.1

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 26/10/17 19:27, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2017-10-26 10:18 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> 
>> On 26/10/17 09:13, Niko Tyni wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:15:35PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>>> Control: tags -1 confirmed
>>>>>
>>>>> perl 5.26.1-1 is in experimental. It is binary compatible with 5.26.0
>>>>> and therefore Provides both perlapi-5.26.0 and perlapi-5.26.1. However,
>>>>> four binNMUs will be needed once it enters unstable due to their strict
>>>>> versioned dependencies on the current perl version:
>>>>>
>>>>>  libpar-packer-perl
>>>>>  libdevel-cover-perl
>>>>>  libclass-xsaccessor-perl
>>>>>  libcommon-sense-perl
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let us know if/when it's OK to upload.
>>>>
>>>> Please go ahead.
>>>
>>> Thanks, now uploaded and built on all architectures.
>>> Could you please schedule the binNMUs.
>>
>> Scheduled.
> 
> It seems that something went wrong here and perl was not upgraded to
> 5.26.1 on the buildd chroots, meaning the binNMUs were wasted. :-(

Rescheduled. I always forget that perl is already installed on the chroots so it
needs a manual hint so an upgrade is forced, until the chroots are re-generated
(which happens twice a week).

Cheers,
Emilio