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Re: CPAN module updates
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From:
John SJ Anderson
Date:
September 21, 2017 16:46
Subject:
Re: CPAN module updates
Message ID:
0DB0CD42-506A-482E-8654-492CC562B195@genehack.org
> On 21Sep2017, at 09:40, Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> wrote:
>
> Some time ago, we had a volunteer who would update blead with new
> releases of dual-life CPAN modules on a regular basis. Recently that
> has not been happening. Test::Simple in blead, for example, is about
> twenty releases behind CPAN.
My apologies. I looked at the out of sync modules when doing the 5.27.4 release yesterday, but decided (slash was advised to) to skip that step my first time out.
> We need a new volunteer who would be willing to take on this
> task. I would be willing myself, but quite frankly I just do not
> have the time.
I don’t have time _immediately_ but I will consider looking into this in a few weeks, if nobody else steps up.
> Nevertheless, if someone would point me to a set of instructions
> (I have never done this before), I would like to update at least
> Test::Simple myself, since it has recently been fixed to work with
> blead changes that I am about to make.
This is documented in the Release Manager’s Guide: <https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/perl/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod#How-to-sync-a-CPAN-module-with-a-cpan/-distro>
chrs,
john.
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