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| From: | Torsten Veller <ml-en@××××××.net> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Re: perl-5.10 inclusion | ||
| Date: | Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:38:08 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20090802144908.TA224c3.tv@veller.net | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] perl-5.10 inclusion by Lars Wendler |
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| 1 | * Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>: |
| 2 | > perl-5.10 is out since end of 2007 [1] and we still don't have it in our main |
| 3 | |
| 4 | This is the problem. To add 5.10.0 now you have to review 1.5 years of |
| 5 | patches. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | http://git.debian.org/?p=perl/perl.git;a=heads |
| 8 | http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/perl/ |
| 9 | ... |
| 10 | |
| 11 | I am sure there is at least one security related patch missing in the |
| 12 | perl-experimental package. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | OTOH: 5.10.1 is expected soon. A first release candidate was scheduled |
| 15 | for this weekend. |
| 16 | Well, once the "...plan was to have 5.10.1 out by the end of the year...." |
| 17 | That was last year and the point where i stopped spending time |
| 18 | on packaging 5.10.0. Looking back after 9 month, this was probably not |
| 19 | the best decision. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | |
| 22 | I don't expect to find many problems within other packages. |
| 23 | |
| 24 | What needs to be done: |
| 25 | - Find maintainers. |
| 26 | - Fix our patchset: |
| 27 | http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/perl5-packaging.git;a=summary |
| 28 | - Fix perl-cleaner and test the upgrade path: |
| 29 | http://github.com/tove/perl-cleaner/tree |