Hello all, Here is a quick update on progress since my last update on 7th Sept:
The current stats for this transition are as follows: * Number of binNMUs needed: 570[1] (was 571) * Number of arch:any packages which FTBFS with perl 5.22: 7 (was 8) * 1 fix pending; 6 needing more work or removal. * libapache2-mod-perl2 remains problematic, but there has been some progress in upstream svn. * Removing it temporarily appears to be an option. I suspect that upstream will be able to work on it again after the release of perl 5.22.1 * we have agreed to not support libcoro-perl with perl 5.22[2] * libdata-dump-streamer-perl, libb-hooks-op-check-entersubforcv-perl, libdata-alias-perl and libdevel-findref-perl all need investigation; no activity upstream. Probably libdata-dump-streamer-perl has the biggest impact * Number of arch:all packages which FTBFS with perl 5.22: 9 (was 19)[3], with uploads pending for 2 of those * needing work: libdebug-client-perl, padre, libpoe-api-peek-perl, libtest-checkchanges-perl, mysql-5.5 (but this is an apparently abandoned variant), libb-lint-perl, libmodule-info-perl I'm continuing rebuilds of arch:any packages which depend on perlapi-* or libperl* daily, so the test repository[4] remains almost up-to-date with the archive. Problem reports welcome (to me), and of course further testing (in a controlled, development environment) of packages you use is welcome. Niko pointed out that some upgrade testing would not go amiss, so that is a discrete task for anyone who is interested. perl in experimental has had some minor fixes in 5.22.0-4 and there is one more minor change queued in git. 5.22.1 is starting to happen upstream[5] so there is an ongoing task to track that and possibly update our package; but this doesn't need to be entangled with the transition. The proposed change to policy has now been updated and is ready to file against debian-policy at the time of the transition[6]. Release team: can we upgrade the FTBFS bugs to RC now so they get a bit more attention, and do you have a feeling for when you might be ready for the perl transition? Cheers, Dominic (for the perl and pkg-perl teams) [1] <https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl.html> [2] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787500> [3] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.22-transition;users=debian-p...@lists.debian.org> [4] <https://people.debian.org/~dom/perl/test/perl-5.22.0/> [5] <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2015/09/msg231107.html> [6] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=798309>