From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Updating Perl to 5.23?
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:06:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADrxHD-tHinn57Eyr0j0VyPE3WbpQgYjD=2aOWoSuUgbrLfORw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87twnn3lnm.fsf@gnu.org>
On 12/12/2015, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> 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 <http://www.cpan.org/src/README.html>,
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
<https://packages.debian.org/experimental/perl>, 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-12 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-12 12:18 Updating Perl to 5.23? Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-12 13:06 ` Alex Vong [this message]
2015-12-12 16:52 ` Efraim Flashner
2015-12-12 17:54 ` Updating Python, pkg-config, and more Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-13 3:51 ` Updating Perl to 5.23? Alex Vong
2015-12-12 17:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-12-13 10:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
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