Plans for 5.20

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:19:55AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:40:51AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 
> > I've pushed preliminary 5.19.11 packaging to our Alioth repository
> > as ntyni/debian-5.19. I haven't tagged it as those are pretty much
> > irrevocable, but f8ec2d0ebcf73f2bf19ccc15167bb70c18a56228 is the commit
> > I pushed. The last two commits are the multiarch related ones.
> 
> Thanks for working on ntyni/debian-5.19 - that's a lot of legwork taken
> care of!
> 
> I'm guessing we'll want to loosely base our 5.20 branch on
> ntyni/debian-5.19 (plenty of scope for cherry-picking I see) rather
> than actually use that as a git ancestor, to keep history clean?
> How painful was git dpm rebase-patched this time?

It wasn't *really* bad, but enough so that I wouldn't want to do it
again. In particular, ExtUtils::MakeMaker or something thereabouts had
started buffering its output into a variable and only printing it out
later, which caused quite a few conflicts.

OTOH if you'd like to try it for 5.20.0, that could be used to cross-check
my conflict resolutions, which would probably be useful to catch any bugs
I've introduced.

 git diff debian/5.19 debian/5.20 -- debian/patches

or something like that.

Anyway, I don't think it would be too unclean to keep 5.19.11 in the
git history.

I see 5.20.0-RC1 was released last night.
-- 
Niko