Bug#619117: perl 5.12 transition

[Julien Cristau]

Package: release.debian.org
Owner: perl at packages.debian.org
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 23:10:27 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 07:40:26PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > I would like to register an interest in carrying out a perl transition
> > soon. This would be to perl 5.10.1 to 5.12.x (x = 3 currently). This
> > transition has already been in preparation for some time, and I think
> > we are in a good position to schedule this now. This is the first major
> > transition I've been involved in (I've recently become a co-maintainer
> > of the perl package), so please bear with me if I miss anything out.
> > You can see the transition tracking bugs at [1].
> 
> [snip rest of mail]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I wondered whether anyone had had a chance to look at scheduling this
> in yet, of if there's a better way to go about this?
> 
Sorry, not yet.  Filing as a bug so we don't drop it.

Roughly how many packages does the move to 5.12 involve, and how many
would need source uploads?

Thanks,
Julien