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commit a8ec9917c1913282d626f8c7467e40e55b7f5c97
Author: Steve Hay <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Jan 29 14:23:37 2015 +0000

    RMG - Note that Porting/cmVERSION.pl should be used to check more releases
    
    t/porting/cmp_version.t only runs Porting/cmVERSION.pl for the previous
    release of the current branch, but we need to check that our versions
    differ from modules in releases from other branches too. For example,
    when releasing 5.20.2 we need to check against 5.18.4 too.
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Summary of changes:
 Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod 
b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index 7f80ee7..76e0f45 100644
--- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -535,6 +535,20 @@ then configure and build perl so that you have a Makefile 
and porting tools:
 
     $ ./Configure -Dusedevel -des && make
 
+=head3 Check module versions
+
+For each Perl release since the previous release of the current branch, check
+for modules that have identical version numbers but different contents by
+running:
+
+    $ ./perl Porting/cmpVERSION.pl --tag=v5.X.YY
+
+(This is done automatically by F<t/porting/cmp_version.t> for the previous
+release of the current branch, but not for any releases from other branches.)
+
+Any modules that fail will need a version bump, plus a nudge to the upstream
+maintainer for 'cpan' upstream modules.
+
 =head3 update Module::CoreList
 
 =head4 Bump Module::CoreList* $VERSIONs

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