Bug#902557: transition: Perl 5.28

[Niko Tyni]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
Forwarded: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.28.html
X-Debbugs-Cc: perl at packages.debian.org
Control: block -1 with 899021 900832 901080 901082 901085 887687 862678 900232 902556

Dear release team,

Perl 5.28 is in experimental and we'd like to get it into buster
at some point, so filing this a bit pre-emptively.

We've been doing test rebuilds of all reverse build dependencies of perl
for a while on perl.debian.net, and things are looking pretty good,
with the hairiest issue being #887687 (debconf needs qt4-perl which
doesn't seem to have a bright future at all).

I'm marking this bug as blocked by the handful of 5.28 related regressions
we've spotted, and another handful of unrelated build failures in current
sid that would prevent the necessary binNMUs. I've excluded packages
not in testing, with the exception of libembperl-perl which Axel said
he'll be looking at soon.

We still want to do a full archive test rebuild soonish: as perl-base is
essential and perl is transitively build essential, there are implicit
build dependencies in the archive that we haven't covered yet. I don't
expect much fallout though. I'll update this bug once we have more data.

As usual, bugs are being filed with the usertag
debian-perl at lists.debian.org / perl-5.28-transition . See

 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.28-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org

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