On 13/12/2015, Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:06:53 +0800 > Alex Vong <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? >> > > In terms of large updates, pkg-config is up to 0.29, python just hit 3.5, > and > python2 hit 2.7.11. Although in relation to odd numbers being dev releases, > I > don't know about any of the above version changes if they're dev releases > or > not. > I think they are not. From this PEP <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#developmental-releases>, development releases of python are tagged with `X.Y.devN`.
Also, we can apply the *Debian test*[1]. Debian packaged python 2.7.11 <https://packages.debian.org/sid/python> into unstable, so we should be fine. Debian also packaged pkg-config 0.29 <https://packages.debian.org/sid/pkg-config>, so it also be fine... > -- > Efraim Flashner <[email protected]> אפרים פלשנר > GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 > Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted > [1]: We know Debian is *stable* (even unstable is not unstable, real testing goes to experimental, the worst thing happened to me was gnome-3 stopped working), so they should have done the right thing. Cheers, Alex
