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Re: Updating Perl to 5.23?
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Alex Vong |
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Re: Updating Perl to 5.23? |
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Sat, 12 Dec 2015 21:06:53 +0800 |
On 12/12/2015, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
> In ‘core-updates’ I want to fix a couple of non-determinism issues
> related to Perl:
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> https://bugs.debian.org/801621
> https://bugs.debian.org/801523
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> While at it, I thought we might as well upgrade Perl to 5.23.
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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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?