I've made the new 5.6 Perl available from: deb http://www.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental ./ deb-src http://www.daft.com/pub/debian/experimental ./
deb http://master.debian.org/~torin/packages/experimental ./ deb-src http://master.debian.org/~torin/packages/experimental ./ I made them available from master as well since Sprint has had bouts of dropping packets lately. The following are the changes wrought for this release: * Add the threading version of Perl into the build system. XS components need it even if users can't. * Copy Brendan's patched target wholesale for the application of patches. * Adapt Brendan's libperl changes. Be sure and link suidperl static. I've not put in a separate libperl5.6-dev package since you'd need the full Perl package to do that anyway. Possibly, perl-5.6 should provide libperl5.6-dev? The tasks to have done by Saturday are: * Remove the alternatives - there should be One True Perl This means that I have to build the 5.004 and 5.005 packages and remove the alternatives from there too. This is why this isn't done for this release. * Make the documentation build under binary-indep. I had this originally but it was horrid due to the alternatives mess. I reverted and it will be fixed for the next test release. * Pull forward some of the changes from 5.005 such as ExtUtils::MM_Unix not using LD_RUN_PATH, getting eg/rename patched, etc. I may leave the shadow password problem for the second release to unstable. If folks could bang on this, I'll release a 0.3 on Saturday. If that proves stable, I'll release it pretty much unchanged at -1 a few days after that... Darren -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><http://www.daft.com/~torin/> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-206-ELF-LIPZ @ Make a little hot-tub in your soul. @
