From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: Updating Perl to 5.23? Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 18:52:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20151212185205.21b7cb22@debian-netbook> References: <87twnn3lnm.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; boundary="Sig_/l=Kqw7Z8dB=nlh_tmpH5q48"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47434) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7nP7-0006J5-KM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:52:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a7nP3-00086C-Jx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:52:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel --Sig_/l=Kqw7Z8dB=nlh_tmpH5q48 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:06:53 +0800 Alex Vong wrote: > On 12/12/2015, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > > In =E2=80=98core-updates=E2=80=99 I want to fix a couple of non-determi= nism 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=E2=80=99m n= ot sure > > whether this is a minor upgrade, or if it would break lots of things. > > > > Thanks, > > Ludo=E2=80=99. > > > > =20 >=20 > 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? >=20 In terms of large updates, pkg-config is up to 0.29, python just hit 3.5, a= nd 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. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --Sig_/l=Kqw7Z8dB=nlh_tmpH5q48 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWbFC1AAoJEPTB05F+rO6TboAQAKQ6GzocUUAOMD/8DoTTMfat P6341B1SnzoT6pUr/DPrkaZ7Vc3OFUefx1INbly0Y7O31XtOkwPMYi2R8qO4+CFv +2Vdrq6eMPncMM12BzsjsQFwxtRScEF5aKN0LW3KIFcmQSl/x9X65tfk0Hf142rZ ByLnU7egcRLZpk8ANP1ILnF+rNuGUyXAPZa5xvT7z21QmUOO4ImM+AfL+vrcV7Xh LzaxbIoPIcccDHwqbFWEGBY2ZPc+vCyOcCy9Vtv/5zUk1gebAz+X3kZ2JMIMl6IN vt/6qQ8jnn9j9q0uVHz/KkoNTIuD/ciO4kcT+Ubdxlx8nERAIeEXlo7gaTXtICkM KzdX/0JzLNYO6/dBvSgEs5d1rsOYwOoGaUAGgJNFRUlwgKpyHTp91mG6W9N0551s kAoNn2TGJ+7c6oDIYJfsSSCRGaXAGSGjsbwmbhxlv6sNSSkk6Y21vaMiSmzbY0y5 oGLV7SoCDO/Cy79KGPmBEaRF//W0OrnlxQMY1xqqH7qsATthzQmbbI8F6v7Wxbww 6VendrnEnbmW1JnhDP8H14/5yWqRu6HQ8HrvDKOChlIdXxYsnKAb3gQ+vIjMys4p YlpMZ6ZtIHg6EZHJLyWg4Wv3B8z9A18eU4mDV6b1ieM0kbgVFJ5GsFiHK2ynGKWi MkIl0HNKKDH7EfcF/Jjd =ftlO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/l=Kqw7Z8dB=nlh_tmpH5q48--