Bug#1003176: transition: perl 5.34

[Niko Tyni]

Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
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Control: block -1 with 1002093 997267 997189

Hi,

we'd like a transition slot for Perl 5.34.

Should have done this months ago, but real life has interfered. Sorry
about that.

Perl 5.36 is scheluded for May or so, and I expect that will be our target
for bookworm.  Nevertheless, it's probably best to do this incrementally
and have a 5.34 transition now in case 5.36 turns out to be difficult
for some reason.

The changes in 5.34 are quite small, as upstream spent most of that
release cycle planning Perl 7 (which did not quite work out.) This
reflects in the very low number regressions we found in our test
rebuilds, visible at

  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.34-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org

with just one bug open (openscap, not in testing).

I did a full archive test rebuild back in May, and partial test rebuilds
in August. Coming back to this now, I've done another round of test
rebuilds for those packages that will need binNMUs. I don't think another
full round is necessary: it seems unlikely that the other packages might
have introduced any Perl 5.34 related regressions in the meantime.

There's a few packages that have unrelated build failures in current sid.
I'm marking the ones in testing as blockers for this.

Not sure if this Ben file is correct but hope it helps a bit:

title = "perl";
is_affected = .depends ~ "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32" | .pre-depends ~ "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32";
is_good = .depends ~ "libperl5.34|perlapi-5.34" | .pre-depends ~ "libperl5.34|perlapi-5.34";
is_bad = .depends ~ "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32" | .pre-depends ~ "libperl5.32|perlapi-5.32";

Thanks for your work,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org