5.14.3 and wheezy

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:32:06AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:17:46PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > assuming that it's too late to get all of 5.14.3 in wheezy, I had a look
> > at its changelog to find any candidates for cherry-picking.

> I was unsure about the smartmatch operator thing too, but after reviewing
> the justification for its inclusion in the thread starting
> 
> http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2011/07/msg174260.html
> 
> I think I would vote for its inclusion; it's fixing a misfeature
> (compared to the docs) in a not-often used corner of the syntax; it's
> been fixed in upstream 5.14 and up; I think we should fix it in Debian
> sooner rather than later, on the principle of least surprise.

Ah, thanks for the pointer! I didn't find much justification for
the change earlier; with this background it makes more sense.

I'll try to get it in.
 
> perlcheat I have no strong views on. Doc fixes qualify during a freeze,
> so on those grounds there should be no problems with including this,
> but then again perlcheat is something which can easily be found on the
> web.

Shouldn't hurt pulling that one too while we're at it.

I'll have to test the CPAN::FirstTime fix for #688842 a bit more, and
after that i think I'm ready to ask for preapproval from the release
team about these.
-- 
Niko