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On 2022-01-05 17:00:54 +0000, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-p...@lists.debian.org, p...@packages.debian.org > Control: block -1 with 1002093 997267 997189 > > Hi, > > we'd like a transition slot for Perl 5.34. > > Should have done this months ago, but real life has interfered. Sorry > about that. > > Perl 5.36 is scheluded for May or so, and I expect that will be our target > for bookworm. Nevertheless, it's probably best to do this incrementally > and have a 5.34 transition now in case 5.36 turns out to be difficult > for some reason. > > The changes in 5.34 are quite small, as upstream spent most of that > release cycle planning Perl 7 (which did not quite work out.) This > reflects in the very low number regressions we found in our test > rebuilds, visible at > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.34-transition;users=debian-p...@lists.debian.org > > with just one bug open (openscap, not in testing). > > I did a full archive test rebuild back in May, and partial test rebuilds > in August. Coming back to this now, I've done another round of test > rebuilds for those packages that will need binNMUs. I don't think another > full round is necessary: it seems unlikely that the other packages might > have introduced any Perl 5.34 related regressions in the meantime. > > There's a few packages that have unrelated build failures in current sid. > I'm marking the ones in testing as blockers for this. Some packages are also involved in the ongoing ocaml transition. So let's wait for ocaml to be done. Cheers > > Not sure if this Ben file is correct but hope it helps a bit: > > title = "perl"; > is_affected = .depends ~ "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32" | .pre-depends ~ > "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32"; > is_good = .depends ~ "libperl5.34|perlapi-5.34" | .pre-depends ~ > "libperl5.34|perlapi-5.34"; > is_bad = .depends ~ "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32" | .pre-depends ~ > "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32"; > > Thanks for your work, > -- > Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org > -- Sebastian Ramacher
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