Perl 5.14 packaging underway

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:16:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:27:05PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > Dominic: just in case you have some spare time+cycles for another mass
> > rebuild, I'm sure upstream would very much appreciate any breakage
> > reports before the actual 5.14.0 release.
> 
> I'll see what I can do. I assume that the native version number was a
> mistake?

Yeah, it's supposed to be -1 of course. Don't know how I managed to miss that.

> Would it be worth putting this list of outstanding tasks on the wiki?

Done.

> If we are pushing ahead with 5.12, we could do with fixing these, though.
> Would it make sense to commit your tool to perl-5.12?

I suppose so. I didn't want to be invasive so I started with just 5.14.
I don't (currently) intend to change the tool very much, so forking it
shouldn't a big problem.

Cherry-picking or git-am'ing d45717194e148df04d418 first is probably
the nicest way to do it wrt. future merges.

The alternative is to keep it outside the perl package in a separate
repository, but I kind of like the current setup. Running it from
debian/rules should help fighting bit rot as there's an incentive to
keep it working.
-- 
Niko