Upcoming stable point release (7.2)

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:08:17AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> 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.

All three now pushed to the wheezy branch; it would be great if
I could get some more eyeballs on the changes.

I've also updated libdigest-sha-perl with its wheezy branch. I
don't think there is anything more complicated than updating the Breaks
to match the new wheezy version of that?

I'm building the perl package now to do some testing. Then the next
step is to file s-p-u bug report with the release team, probably for
both packages at once.

Cheers,
Dominic.