[Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Fri Dec 15 17:15:55 GMT 2023


On 23/10/2023 19:53, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 02/05/2023 21:34, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 01/05/2023 21:00, Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm going to release Perl 5.36.1 to Cygwin in a few days.  I've skipped
>>> 5.34 in order to update only every second year (which I've done since
>>> the 5.22 release).  I haven't seen any trouble in my own Perl
>>> distribution packages from the update even though there are lots of
>>> them that haven't been updated since at least 5.22.  So I hope it will
>>> be smooth sailing for anything else depending on Perl also.
>>>
>>> Any maintainer having packages that depend on perl5_032 should
>>> re-release or upgrade these soon-ish after the Perl update is available,
>>> as otherwise users are either blocked from upgrading Perl or will have
>>> to uninstall the affected packages.  The rebuilt packages need to have a
>>> dependency on perl5_036, which cygport provides automatically.
>>
>> There's an updated report available [1], which should list the 
>> affected packages.
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/perl_rebuilds.html
>>
> 
> Hi Jari,
> 
> Is it possible to get a rebuild/update of pristine-tar and sendxmpp for 
> perl5.36?

Ping?

Please indicate if these packages will be updated, or should be removed.



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