Upcoming stable point release (7.2)

[Niko Tyni]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:28:15PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:11:10PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The next point release for "wheezy" (7.2) is scheduled for Saturday 
> > October 12th.  Stable NEW will be frozen during the preceding weekend.
 
Thanks for looking at this.

> Which gives us just under two weeks. There is:
> 
> 718438 Shared references (threads::shared) disappear on sub return in perl
> 711206 double free in Digest::SHA[1]
> 710842 perlbug doesn't include locally-applied patch info[2]
> 
> as candidates (Niko, you weren't sure about [2], but if it is
> non-invasive, it's probably worthwhile). [1] would need a coordinated
> upload of libdigest-sha-perl (hence CC). I don't feel very strongly
> about any of things, but together they probably make up a worthwhile
> bundle of updates for wheezy. I'd be interested in other thoughts
> for and against these (and of course for any other candidates I've
> missed).

The threads::shared thing should definitely go in, and I think the other
two could well go with that. 

The libdigest-sha-perl thing needs some careful checking with the Breaks
entries and indeed coordination with the separate package, but I think
it's clearly stable update material.

The perlbug fix should be very much self contained: if a test bug report
works I can't think how it could break anything else.
-- 
Niko