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Re: Updating Perl to 5.23?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Updating Perl to 5.23? |
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Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:30:36 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Alex Vong <address@hidden> skribis:
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>> 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?
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> Very good point. So I guess we’d be targeting 5.22. Does the
> 5.16 → 5.22 switch sound reasonable?
I went ahead with the update in ‘core-updates’, along with a couple of
determinism patches (commits 4de3507 and 4187fe7.)
Ludo’.