[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.



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