On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:00:46AM -0800, Paul Steward wrote: > Is Perl 5.8.0 stable on Woody? I have been advised that the binary > compatibility problem has kept it out of the stable branch for > approximately two years.
You were advised wrongly, I'm afraid. It sounds like your advisor doesn't really know how Debian releases work. It's true that Perl 5.8 required us to recompile a number of packages due to binary incompatibility, but that isn't why it's not part of the current stable release. > Is this the case and if so, when can Perl 5.8.0 be expected for Debian > 3? Packages are never upgraded in stable once it's released, aside from security fixes and fixes for major breakages. Instead, we release an *entire* new stable distribution *at once*. Perl 5.8.2 is already in our testing distribution, and will be part of the next stable release when that is made. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
