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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
December 6, 2017 21:17
Subject:
Re: RFC: Adding a perldisthist POD page
Message ID:
CACBZZX56FdXUCq9NhYi_YNuf9zqV44-+jWw5sjA4DmH+4yN4oA@mail.gmail.com
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de> wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I just pushed a WIP perldisthist POD page. It's like perlhist except
>> it documents what OS / distro release carried a given version of perl:
>>
>> https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/f39ded76638c46278fc5caab723b1e9e30bbbbef
>>
>> It's currently quite sparse, just lists RHEL [567], which is already
>> all I wanted out of it.
>>
>> I find myself looking this up more often than I'd like, and usually
>> end up on some random stackoverflow thread, it would be great if this
>> were part of the core perl docs.
>
> If you like to add more information:
>
> For Debian wheezy..stretch (buster will probably change until the
> final release) see: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/perl
>
> Debian squeeze had 5.10.1 (see https://launchpad.net/debian/squeeze/+source/perl ).

Yes, definitely, if anyone has more resources I'll add them, just
added this: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/feb8c4747c

I use Debian myself, didn't know you could get this info from
Launchpad, I tried to get it via ftp.debian.org quickly but you needed
to unpack & grep the >30MB gz'd package manifests to get it from there
it seemed.

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