In perl.git, the branch maint-5.22 has been updated
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commit 83e412526f3e30fa8c5b20c31a2269c6ce286d00
Author: Aaron Crane <a...@cpan.org>
Date: Sun Nov 15 15:10:54 2015 +0000
maint policy: allow fixes for new features
As (Steve Hay)++ said on-list:
I think it's a shame if users get a 5.X.0 release with some shiny new
features which I hope they're excited about and start making use of,
but then find bugs in those features and have to wait until 5.X+2.0,
rather than 5.X.1, for fixes.
rjbs++ clarified that, although such changes constitute a break in backwards
compatibility, there are two reasons why bugs in new features should be
fixed in maint:
* they delay people from using a feature for a year, because it does
something stupid
* they risk enshrining bad behavior under the usual program of bugward
compatibility
(cherry picked from commit 539a060caed4755d586113e0125241cc88d1048e)
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Summary of changes:
pod/perlpolicy.pod | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pod/perlpolicy.pod b/pod/perlpolicy.pod
index 44fb99f..063dae5 100644
--- a/pod/perlpolicy.pod
+++ b/pod/perlpolicy.pod
@@ -291,6 +291,11 @@ upgrade from very old versions of perl to the latest
version.
=item *
+Patches that fix bugs in features that were new in the corresponding 5.x.0
+stable release.
+
+=item *
+
Patches that fix anything which prevents or seriously impacts the build
or installation of perl.
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