Bug#822336: perl: Stable update taking patches from 5.20.3

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 10:31:18PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

[test branch for perl 5.20.3 changes]

> Looks good. I like the separate merges.
> 
> Grouping together 
>  fixes/5.20.3/preserve_record_separator.diff
>  fixes/5.20.3/test_count_base_rs.diff
> more explicitly might be nice but that's just picking nits.
> 
> I note that there are no Bug headers, just Bug-Debian.  While many of
> the commit subjects have an rt.perl.org ticket number on them, not all
> of them do. Unfortunately I suspect that adding Bug headers would
> duplicate the ticket number in the perl -V patch list for the ones
> that have them already in Subject.

I've added Bug headers in some cases; by a happy coincidence, the
process of feeding the patches through git format-patch/git am has
removed the duplicate ticket references from the subject...

> That's a good idea. /usr/share/doc/perl/perldebdelta.pod ?

Done.

The new branch is 

dom/jessie-imports-from-5.20.3-take-4 which is based off a slightly
updated jessie branch, with the fix for #820328 applied.

Release team: please consider #819758 as being a request for the attached
patch (which includes the previously-submitted change); there is more
rationale about the patches included in [1] - but the short version is
that this change includes (I believe) all updates from the upstream
5.20.3 release which are relevant to Debian and which meet the stable
update policy. It also includes one no-dsa security update.

I've installed a test build of this update on my main workstation,
and all is well so far.

Thanks,
Dominic.

[1] <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822336>
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