Perl updates for jessie

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 08:27:55PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:58:54PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > On 2015-02-16 21:45, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > Hi release team,
> > > 
> > > See
> > > 
> > > <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2015-February/004667.html>
> > > 
> > > where I have summarised some possibly-relevant fixes from the latest 
> > > stable release of perl. Many of them are regressions from what we have
> > > in wheezy.
> > > 
> > > By themselves none of them are release critical but there is quite a
> > > bundle of changes. Do you think there is any point in trying to get these
> > > into Jessie before release? I think there'd be an argument for them
> > > going in in a point release if not.
> > > 
> > > It'd probably be safest to actually import 5.20.2 rather than cherry pick
> > > all the right patches from that long list. I realise that this falls
> > > some way outside the current freeze policy, so feel free to tell me to
> > > go away :)
> > > 
> > > Note: there's one bug currently filed at RC to consider fixing in 
> > > perl: #777556.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dominic.
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > I do feel it is not quite in the spirit of the freeze-policy.  Though
> > having reviewed the concrete upstream changes, commit-by-commit, I would
> > be willing to accept those (upstream) changes for Jessie.
> > 
> > That said, my approval assumes there will be no changes on the debian
> > side (beyond dropping patches applied upstream and a changelog entry).
> > If there are other changes to debian/, they will need to be approved
> > separately.
> 
> Hi Niels,
> 
> Thanks. I've now uploaded 5.20.2-1, which includes changes related to
> other RC bugs as well as the new upstream release. I've filed a binNMU
> bug for the packages that need rebuilding as a result.
> 
> I'll ping this thread again when all packages related to perl 5.20.2
> and #777597 are ready to be unblocked.

I see that those packages have already been unblocked; thanks!

I have pushed some more changes to add Breaks for some more packages
(that weren't fixed when I prepared the previous upload). Also pushed
is a change fixing #781120 (or at least making it as painless as we
realistically can by improving the diagnostics).

There is one more regression bug that we would like to get fixed for
jessie (#779357) but there is no good patch available yet; so I think
it's best if we upload now. Would you be happy to accept the changes
currently in git for jessie?

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/perl/perl.git/log/

Cheers,
Dominic.