Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC v2: News item: Perl 5.26 update

[Aaron W. Swenson]

On 2017-10-08 14:01, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> OK so here's the updated version:
> …
> Typical errors are 

Needs a colon.

Typical errors are:

But the rest looks good to me.

I don’t know how to write “good job” without it sounding
patronizing. But here it is anyway: Good job!


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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC v2: News item: Perl 5.26 update

[Andreas K. Huettel]

OK so here's the updated version:

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Title: Perl 5.26 update: possible breakage
Author: Andreas K. Hüttel 
Posted: xxx
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 2.0
Display-If-Installed: >=dev-lang/perl-5.26.0

You have just upgraded to Perl 5.26. This release brings several 
incompatible changes, as a result of deprecations coming to term
and of changes in default settings to mitigate a potential
security issue [1].

While we have made sure that all resulting build failures within 
Gentoo are fixed, this may not be the case for runtime issues, 
and certainly can affect third-party code (e.g., "hand-installed" 
server applications).

Typical errors are 
* Can't locate inc/... in @INC (you may need to install the inc::... module)
* error: ... has no member named ‘op_sibling’
* Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal in ...

Please see the pages [2,3] for details and report bugs if you run
into problems during or after the Perl update.

General purpose advice on updating Perl can be found on page [4].

[1] https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127834
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589680
[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/Dot-In-INC-Removal
[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Perl/5.26_Known_Issues
[4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Perl
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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfri...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer (council, perl, libreoffice)

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