[Attn. MAINTAINERS] Heads up: Perl 5.36.1 is imminent

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue May 2 20:34:48 GMT 2023


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



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