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

[Jon Turney]

On 18/08/2024 18:56, 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:
[...]

The current list of things still needing rebuilds can be found at:

https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/perl_rebuilds.html