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

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-08-25 07:25, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> 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

Just to reassure maintainers and encourage adopters:

graphviz           ORPHANED
libproxy           ORPHANED
link-grammar       ORPHANED
net-snmp           ORPHANED
openwsman          ORPHANED
marisa             ORPHANED
ming               ORPHANED
nginx              ORPHANED
xfconf             ORPHANED
zbar               ORPHANED
zinnia             ORPHANED

I would think graphviz and nginx might have lots of users?
Any ideas what others may have significant dependencies or users?
Jon did NMUs on these last year, so they should be in decent shape for adopters 
- any maintainers who are users and would be interested takers?

GraphicsMagick     Marco Atzeri
ImageMagick        Marco Atzeri
postgresql         Marco Atzeri
subversion         Marco Atzeri
hexchat            Marco Atzeri
irssi              Marco Atzeri
weechat            Sebastien Helleu
openbabel          Lemures Lemniscati
stow               Andrew Schulman
znc                Alexey Sokolov
libsolv            Jon Turney
po4a               Erwin Waterlander

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry