Bug#902557: transition: Perl 5.28

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 28/10/2018 13:24, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 02:14:01PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
>> The only thing I found is gnumeric (#912099). Given it only links against
>> libperl5.26, I'm not sure if that's an actual blocker or if libperl5.26
>> and libperl5.28 can exist in testing at the same time ("soft updates"?)
> 
> If libperl can really be soft-updated these days, it doesn't block the
> starting of the transition, but it *does* block the ending, as of course
> we would like to remove libperl5.26 at some point...

libperl amounts for a very small part of the transition, and that shouldn't be a
problem. The larger issue is that all the perlapi-* rdeps need to migrate
simultaneously, as they are provided by perl-base and thus can't both co-exist
in testing.

> Of course, gnumeric can be removed :P

Yes. Let's go ahead then as things look good now.

Cheers,
Emilio