Hi: On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Marc Brockschmidt<[email protected]> wrote: > Heya, > > As announced on dda [RT1], we want to get an impression when releasing > Squeeze is feasible. We have proposed a (quite ambitious) freeze in December > 2009, and some developers have noted that their planned changes wouldn't be > possible in this time frame. So, to find out when releasing would work for > most people, it would be great if you could answer the following questions: > > * Which major upstream releases of perl are expected in the next two > years? Which of those are material for Debian stable, which might be a bit > flaky? I believe the next big push is 5.10.1 which includes some new modules in core, and lots of bug fixes. I think it's probably best to try to get that one in before the freeze; it has lots of updated versions of core modules too. The first Release Candidate is out; see this announcement: http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=09/08/07/0910246&from=rss > > * How much time do you usually need from a new upstream release of perl > to a stable Debian package in unstable? > > * How many "big" transitions will the upcoming changes cause? When should > those > happen? Can we do something to make them easier? I think the biggest transition has already happened with 5.10.0. At this point it's just lots of bug fixes and new versions of core modules; for the most part it only affects the perl and perl-modules packages. I don't think this will cause regressions in our existing code, as this is a fairly minor release (compared to 5.8 -> 5.10)
Note that some of the bug fixes are pretty important -- on the scale of segfaults and leaked memory: http://search.cpan.org/~dapm/perl-5.10.1-RC1/pod/perl5101delta.pod#Selected_Bug_Fixes > > Thanks, > Marc > > [RT1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/07/msg00001.html > Hope this helps. Cheers, Jonathan Yu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
