Control: tags -1 confirmed On 2022-01-23 12:45:16, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > Control: block -1 by 1002681 > Control: forwarded -1 > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl-5.34.html > > On 2022-01-05 17:00:54 +0000, Niko Tyni wrote: > > Package: release.debian.org > > User: [email protected] > > Usertags: transition > > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > 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;[email protected] > > > > 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.
ocaml is done, so please go ahead. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
