Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from November 2011
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 04:35:40PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 04:17:22PM +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > Perl 5.14 recently transitioned to Debian testing, which means we are > > set for it to be included in the next release. > > Cool. > > Was it an easier process than the 5.10 to 5.12 transition? Probably slightly easier, although Niko may be in a better position to compare as I wasn't heavily involved in the start of the 5.12 work. <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.14-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org> is a bit smaller than <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.12-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org> but not by much. > As best I can work out from a quick web search, there are no dates yet set > for next Debian release. Assuming that 5.16 is released roughly next April, > and as it has taken roughly six months from the first 5.14 release to > Debian's transition, does that mean it's unlikely that the next Debian > release will be on 5.16 (unless it takes over a year to the release freeze > point)? We are planning to freeze for the next release in June[1], so no, we won't be attempting to get 5.16 into the next release unless that schedule changes (while it would theoretically be possible to get it ready in two months, it seems fairly unlikely to be a popular move, not least by Niko and myself...) [1] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/06/msg00003.html> -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)Thread Previous | Thread Next