Dear Release team, I would like to register an interest in carrying out a perl transition soon. This would be to perl 5.10.1 to 5.12.x (x = 3 currently). This transition has already been in preparation for some time, and I think we are in a good position to schedule this now. This is the first major transition I've been involved in (I've recently become a co-maintainer of the perl package), so please bear with me if I miss anything out. You can see the transition tracking bugs at [1].
One possibility that we have considered is missing 5.12 altogether and moving straight to 5.14, which is due to be released in a few months[2], but my current thinking is that it's better to push 5.12 into unstable soon, since it includes a number of deprecation warnings which would ought to be aired in unstable at least for a short while before dropping 5.14 in (some of the things being deprecated will be removed altogether in 5.14). I'm catching some of these deprecation warnings in lib*-perl package build logs, but it's unlikely that we'll catch them all. I can't tell at this stage how long it will be until 5.14 is ready for unstable, of course, but I would expect it to be a minimum of a month or so after release, and probably a fair bit longer, based on the current transition. I do realise that you may prefer to skip a transition in order to reduce the number of transitions, but I think that the approach I've outlined above is safer. As before, we can help by providing a list of packages to binNMU (as of last weekend, when I did all of those, this was 444 packages). I would be greatful if you could let me know what your general thoughts on the issues are, and which option you'd prefer. I think we would be ready for an upload to unstable in two weeks or so. Thanks, Dominic. [1] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.12-transition;[email protected]> [2] <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/Porting/release_schedule.pod> -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
