On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:27:08PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: [email protected] > Usertags: transition > Forwarded: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.28.html
> Perl 5.28 is in experimental and we'd like to get it into buster > at some point, so filing this a bit pre-emptively. Hi, update on this: all the known blockers are now resolved. In particular, qt4-perl is no longer required by debconf (thanks Colin!), and has been requested for removal in #904583. > We still want to do a full archive test rebuild soonish: as perl-base is > essential and perl is transitively build essential, there are implicit > build dependencies in the archive that we haven't covered yet. I don't > expect much fallout though. I'll update this bug once we have more data. This has been delayed due to a shortage of disk space on perl.debian.net. We've only been able to test rebuild the 3000 or so packages directly depending on perl. I believe Damyan (cc'd) is now separately testing the whole archive against Perl 5.28 on his own gear. Last I heard it should be finished in about a week and the first 20% or so hadn't yielded any regressions, but maybe he can give a status update? -- Niko
