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

[Jon Turney]

On 03/05/2023 13:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 5/2/2023 4:45 PM, Achim Gratz via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps writes:
>>> There's an updated report available [1], which should list the
>>> affected packages.
>>>
>>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/perl_rebuilds.html
>>
>> Thanks.  The newly obsolated packages (due to core now recent enough)
>> are still shown in this list (that's probably to be expected).

Ah, right.  That's probably a flaw in the logic used to generate this 
report, packages which are obsoleted by something else can just be ignored.

> I wonder if those obsoleted packages are confusing setup.  In a new 
> Cygwin installation, choosing only the base packages and cygport, setup 
> wants to install perl-Test-Harness (and therefore perl 5.32).  Or maybe 
> there's something else causing perl 5.32 to be chosen, but I don't see it.

Yeah, there's something weird going on there:

Just adding just perl 5.36 to base seems to work fine.

Adding cygport, pulls in automake-{12,13,14}, which depend on perl-Carp 
or perl-Test-Harness. I'm not sure why the solver then goes on to choose 
those packages, rather than perl_base which obsoletes them.