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

[Ken Brown]

On 5/3/2023 9:33 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 03/05/2023 13:19, Ken Brown via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> 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.

Could we work around the problem by removing the dependency of the 
obsolete packages on perl5_032?

Ken