On 12/12/2015, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > In ‘core-updates’ I want to fix a couple of non-determinism issues > related to Perl: > > https://bugs.debian.org/801621 > https://bugs.debian.org/801523 > > While at it, I thought we might as well upgrade Perl to 5.23. > > What do people think? I have no experience with Perl, so I’m not sure > whether this is a minor upgrade, or if it would break lots of things. > > Thanks, > Ludo’. > >
According to <http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html>, perl uses the version scheme such that maintenance branches (ready for production use) are even numbers and development branches are odd numbers. Thus, 5.23 is a development branch. From this page <https://packages.debian.org/experimental/perl>, it seems Debian only packages maintenance branches. Perhaps it is too risky to package development branches (break a lot of things). How do you guys think?
