[Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent
Jon Turney
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Oct 23 18:53:40 GMT 2023
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?
TIA.
More information about the Cygwin-apps
mailing list