Bug#692294: pre-approval: perl/5.14.3-1

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 09:00:47PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:
> Hi release team,
> 
> as discussed in #691185, please consider Perl 5.14.3 for wheezy.
> 
> Beside the PR benefits of releasing with a fresh version, shipping 5.14.3
> would allow us to drop 17 patches that have been merged upstream.
> 
> The upstream rules for stable updates are quite strict; see the
> 'MAINTENANCE BRANCHES' section in perlpolicy(1) of the perl-doc package
> for details.
> 
> The full diff against 5.14.2-15 (in sid, unblocked for wheezy) is at
>  http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/perl_5.14.3-1.gitdiff
>  http://people.debian.org/~ntyni/perl/perl_5.14.3-1.debdiff
> 
> The first is generated with 'git diff', and I recommend it over the
> second one due to a deficiency in debdiff (see #688219).
> 
>  filterdiff -p1 --exclude=pod/\* --exclude=debian/patches/\* --exclude=README\* --exclude=AUTHORS
> gives
>  41 files changed, 1024 insertions(+), 248 deletions(-)
> of which 660 insertions are in Module::CoreList.
> 
> Full upstream changelog:
>  http://search.cpan.org/~dom/perl-5.14.3/pod/perldelta.pod
> 
> Debian packaging:
>  http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=perl/perl.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ntyni/debian-5.14.3
> 
> This would include a small transition: libpar-packer-perl,
> libdevel-cover-perl, and libclass-xsaccessor-perl would need binNMUs to
> become installable with 5.14.3. A newer libmodule-corelist-perl would
> also be needed.
> 
> libperl-apireference-perl would start to FTBFS. 5.14.3 support was added
> upstream in 0.10, and Dominic has prepared an updated package in the
> pkg-perl git repository.

Dear Release team,

We have a security fix for CGI.pm planned for a DSA update in stable soon;
in order that we can plan the best way to get this fixed in unstable/testing
at the same time, please could you let us know whether we should base an
upload of this proposed 5.14.3 package, or a 5.14.2 package?

CCing #694519 which is a t-p-u request for the fix to be applied in
the separately packaged version of this module libcgi-pm-perl (there will
be a DSA update for this too).

Thanks,
Dominic.

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