On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:06:53 +0800 Alex Vong wrote: > On 12/12/2015, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > In ‘core-updates’ I want to fix a couple of non-determinism issues > > related to Perl: > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/801621 > > https://bugs.debian.org/801523 > > > > While at it, I thought we might as well upgrade Perl to 5.23. > > > > What do people think? I have no experience with Perl, so I’m not sure > > whether this is a minor upgrade, or if it would break lots of things. > > > > Thanks, > > Ludo’. > > > > > > According to , > 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 > , 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? > In terms of large updates, pkg-config is up to 0.29, python just hit 3.5, and python2 hit 2.7.11. Although in relation to odd numbers being dev releases, I don't know about any of the above version changes if they're dev releases or not. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted