So, here we are. I wouldn't mind getting initial packages prepared, to make sure there are no complete showstoppers for Debian, but we do have something of a problem in that there's only one experimental...
I wonder whether this is the time to give up with the perl 5.12 transition and make a start on the perl 5.14 one proper. I still think that the best route would be to go via perl 5.12, so people have a chance to see deprecation warnings for a bit before things break in perl 5.14, but based on the timescales I don't know whether that is the best practical option any more. Based on activity at <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619117> and <http://release.debian.org/transitions/> (where perl isn't even listed as planned) it doesn't like the perl 5.12 migration is likely to happen any time soon. Thoughts, anyone? Dominic. ----- Forwarded message from Jesse Vincent <je...@fsck.com> ----- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:52:46 +1000 From: Jesse Vincent <je...@fsck.com> To: perl5-port...@perl.org Subject: Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 But then Australia is such a difficult country to keep track of. On my first visit, some years ago, I passed the time on the long flight reading a history of Australian politics in the twentieth century, wherein I encountered the startling fact that in 1967 the prime minister, Harold Holt, was strolling along a beach in Victoria when he plunged into the surf and vanished. No trace of the poor man was ever seen again. This seemed doubly astounding to meāfirst that Australia could just _lose_ a prime minister (I mean, come on) and second that news of this had never reached me. -- Bill Bryson, /In a Sunburned Country/ I've just uploaded the first release candidate for Perl 5.14.0 to PAUSE. Shortly, you'll find it at: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.14.0-RC1/ SHA1 sums for this release are: 643d688909723aaedbaef67301779331b3d51381 perl-5.14.0-RC1.tar.bz2 ed6be1b0f09af7542df369af254b629dbf5a8b5c perl-5.14.0-RC1.tar.gz While we go to lengths to ensure that new versions of Perl don't break existing programs, it does happen. It's really, really important that we catch unintentional breakage BEFORE we release Perl 5.14.0. It is imperative that you test this release candidate with any software written in Perl which you use or maintain. Similarly, we test Perl on a variety of operating systems on a number of platforms with several different compilers. If you're not 100% certain that we're testing yours, NOW is the time to make sure that Perl 5.14.0 builds and passes its tests on your platform. If no "showstopper" class bugs are found in the next 7 days, we will release a virtually identical tarball as Perl 5.14.0 on Thursday, April 28, 2011. Best, Jesse ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org