Perl 5.18.2

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 07:15:28PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:50:26AM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>  
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, OK. That's a more recent example. Thanks.
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:05:16AM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> Not sure about that, I'm probably overly cautious. Do you think we should
> aim straight for unstable? perldelta.pod is very short.

I think my logic goes something like: since we need to rebuild half a
dozen other packages, we should treat it as a transition and let the
release team know.

Since we're doing that, we may as well stage an upload in experimental.

Since we're doing that, we may as well do a rebuild test.

:)