Bug#902557: transition: Perl 5.28

[Niko Tyni]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 03:07:18PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 09:21:58AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> > On 08/09/2018 13:37, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > > Release team: please consider granting us a transition slot once
> > > the openssl situation has been resolved, and let me know if I've
> > > missed something obvious.
> > 
> > Please ping us again once that happens, in case we miss it.
> 
> Hi, just noting that openssl 1.1.1 is in testing now (as I'm sure you know :)
> 
> I've scheduled one more round of test binNMU rebuilds in case something
> unrelated has regressed. Those will take a day or two to finish.
> I'll report back when I have the results.

The only thing I found is gnumeric (#912099). Given it only links against
libperl5.26, I'm not sure if that's an actual blocker or if libperl5.26
and libperl5.28 can exist in testing at the same time ("soft updates"?)

> I think libimage-sane-perl binNMU migration would get blocked by #908681
> (libsane1: pointless package rename), but there's just one rdep (gscan2pdf)
> so testing removal seems like a viable option.

This still applies.
-- 
Niko