> On 15 Jun 2026, at 21:05, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > > Moving to newer perl is certainly overdue. I don't remember if there is a > Trac ticket for that. Adding new branches is good but the old ones should > also be removed, since 5.38 and older are now EOL. > > In the past, updates to perl5.branches were done en masse, but that of course > triggered a very large number of builds. Doing it piecemeal is probably > better, but it does mean having to do it in the right order, adding > dependencies no later than their dependents and removing dependents no later > than their dependencies.
I can easily figure out why a block update would clog up the builders. However, for most of those ports, we talk about a few seconds of compile time at most. I don’t think the whole update would take longer than, say, a new version of both LLVM and CLANG. Your mileage may vary, of course. Cheers :) Vincent
