Perl 5.14 packaging underway

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 09:00:55AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:16:03PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > 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.

Okay, done (and fixed discrepancies).

> 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.

Yes; I agree that this is the best place for this tool.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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