On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 12:55:34PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > We'd like to have Perl 5.24 in stretch. > > Packages have been in experimental since May, and we've been doing > test rebuilds with those. Issues are tracked with the usertag > debian-p...@lists.debian.org / perl-5.24-transition and can be seen at > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.24-transition;users=debian-p...@lists.debian.org > > The worst blockers are currently libdata-alias-perl (#825011) and net-snmp > (#825014), and there are still a few other build failures with fewer > reverse dependencies. I'll mark this bug as blocked by those soon. > > There are no major packaging changes with 5.24, but this is the first > time that the new libperl package (libperl5.24) is coinstallable with > the older one (libperl5.22). Some upgrade testing is still needed, > but we do not expect this to cause trouble.
I'd like to propose that we upload perl 5.24 to unstable next week. There are a few things left to deal with and I've just updated the blocker list. I think they can all be either fixed in a week or removed, with the possible exception of graphicsmagick which was a new FTBFS which has popped up only on ppc64el. #825524: liblexical-underscore-perl - there is a patch available #834249: openbabel - there is a patch available #825012: libalgorithm-permute-perl - no rdeps, to remove #825231: libdevel-beginlift-perl - no rdeps, to remove #837719: graphicsmagick - new issue, may need to wait or push for hacky fix? #825762: libtext-sprintfn-perl - fixed upstream #834800: libkavorka-perl - one rdep libmoops-perl, both can be removed There is also #825011: libdata-alias-perl which we've agreed to be removed, and one non-blocking FTBFS with perl 5.24 bug open: #825611: libparse-http-useragent-perl I've also increased the severity of all FTBFS with perl 5.24 bugs to serious (7 out of the above 9). Thanks, Dominic.