[Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.40.0 is imminent

[Ken Brown]

On 8/18/2024 1:56 PM, ASSI via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 
> I'm going to release Perl 5.40.0 to Cygwin in a few days.  I've skipped
> 5.38 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_036 or below 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_040, which cygport provides automatically when
> building with the new Perl.
> 
> Packages that need an update from perl5_036 are:
> 
>    biber
>    nginx-mod_http_perl
>    perl-Barcode-ZBar
>    perl-Chemistry-OpenBabel
>    perl-clinkgrammar
>    perl-Graphics-Magick
>    perl-gv
>    perl-Image-Magick
>    perl-marisa
>    perl-ming
>    perl-Net-Libproxy
>    perl-net-snmp
>    perl-openwsman
>    perl-solv
>    perl-Stow
>    perl-Wx-build
>    perl-Xfce4-Xfconf
>    perl-zinnia
>    po4a
>    subversion-perl

texinfo also depends on perl5_036.  It is particularly problematic 
because cygport and automake both depend on texinfo (indirectly in the 
case of automake).  But setup will balk at updating perl as long as 
texinfo is installed, making it difficult to rebuild texinfo against the 
new perl.

The last time around I dealt with this by forcibly updating perl, 
ignoring setup's warnings, and then rebuilding texinfo.  See

   https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2023-May/042902.html

and the followup by Jon.  I guess I'll have to do that again unless 
someone has a better idea.

Ken