Hi folks,
While I agree with dmacks that we can't really automate this, I still think it's important to deal with. I think that if we support a perl version, we ideally want every variant to support that version. There are a few ways this could be accomplished:
1. Usually it's not considered especially polite to modify another maintainer's package. I think we should explicitly say that adding a new perl variant to another maintainer's package is ok, if it doesn't require any non-trivial changes.
2. We may want to have a policy that all perl packages with variants should be tested with all supported perl versions, assuming dependencies allow it. Or, we could require this only on entry to stable.
3. If there are any people who particularly care about a certain perl version, we could have a perl-testing group of some sort.
Or we could just have things ad-hoc like they are now :-) . Any comments?
Dave
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