Re: Updating Perl to 5.23?

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:06:53 +0800
Alex Vong <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 12/12/2015, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> > In ‘core-updates’ I want to fix a couple of non-determinism issues
> > related to Perl:
> >
> >   https://bugs.debian.org/801621
> >   https://bugs.debian.org/801523
> >
> > While at it, I thought we might as well upgrade Perl to 5.23.
> >
> > What do people think?  I have no experience with Perl, so I’m not sure
> > whether this is a minor upgrade, or if it would break lots of things.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ludo’.
> >
> >  
> 
> According to <http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html>,
> perl uses the version scheme such that maintenance branches (ready for
> production use) are even numbers and development branches are odd
> numbers. Thus, 5.23 is a development branch. From this page
> <https://packages.debian.org/experimental/perl>, it seems Debian only
> packages maintenance branches. Perhaps it is too risky to package
> development branches (break a lot of things). How do you guys think?
> 

In terms of large updates, pkg-config is up to 0.29, python just hit 3.5, and
python2 hit 2.7.11. Although in relation to odd numbers being dev releases, I
don't know about any of the above version changes if they're dev releases or
not.

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