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On 05/13/2017 11:15 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 11:42:10PM +0200, Sawyer X wrote: >> On 05/11/2017 08:53 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote: >>> On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 07:21:34PM +0200, Sawyer X wrote: >>>> We are happy to announce perl v5.26.0-RC1, the first release candidate >>>> of version 26 of Perl 5. >>> One point: these two steps from the RMG (i.e. both the consolidation and >>> removal) haven't been done yet: >>> >>> =head3 remove stale perldeltas >>> >>> For the first RC release that is ONLY for a BLEAD-FINAL, the perldeltas >>> from the BLEAD-POINT releases since the previous BLEAD-FINAL should have >>> now been consolidated into the current perldelta, and hence are now just >>> useless clutter. They can be removed using: >> Please forgive my mistakes. First RC and this was a bit frazzling. I >> went through this with Yves and thought I understood it. Then received >> much help today from Aaron and BinGOs, and yet, still made a few mistakes. > It's as much my fault. I've been waiting on the perldeltas to be coalesced > so that I can add the unified dotless-@INC text, and should have jogged > you before now. Presumably something is amiss in the RMG? > > The "usual" procedure is that some time after the last 5.25.x release, > all the 5.25.0..n perldeltas are added together into one jumbo perldelta, > but with redundant info removed. For example if 5.25.2 says we changed > something and 5.25.5 says we changed it back, then both entries get > removed from the final combined perldelta. > > Normally there's then a period of a month or whatever for everyone to > proof-read and amend it. > > Are you in a position to be able to coalesce soon? If not I could have a > go. Also, worth noting: I *have* coalesced them, just with some mistakes. Feel free to add it yourself to perldelta directly.Thread Previous | Thread Next