Perl 5.18.2

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:05:16AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 5.18.2 was released upstream yesterday. The packaging should be
> trivial, I tried it for one of the release candidates and 'git dpm
> import-new-upstream --rebase' needed just one manual intervention IIRC.
> 
> We need to coordinate the upload with the release team.  Even though
> minor upgrades are ABI compatible, I got some criticism in the past when
> I uploaded one without an explicit ack [1].

And by comparison 5.12.4-1 was the only other minor point release that hit
unstable/testing since:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2011/06/msg00332.html

and that one didn't go via experimental.

> I'll try to get it in experimental in a few days (but feel free to beat me
> to it) and file a 'transition' bug. I guess a test rebuild of perl related
> packages would be good although I don't expect regressions. Dominic,
> are you in a position to do that?

Yeah, okay, I'll try and do that if you think it's worthwhile.

> FWIW packages involved in the transition include at least 
> (list from https://wiki.debian.org/PerlMaintenance)
> 
>     libpar-packer-perl (binnmu)
>     libdevel-cover-perl (binnmu)
>     libclass-xsaccessor-perl (binnmu)
>     libcommon-sense-perl (binnmu)
>     libmodule-corelist-perl (needs a source upload)
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/09/msg00208.html