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Fedora as bleeding edge distribution should be shipping new release of perl as one of the first distributions. | |||
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Revision as of 13:41, 31 May 2012
Perl 5.16
Summary
Perl 5.16 brings a lot of changes. Details about them could be found at perl [delta]
Owner
- Name: Petr Písař
- Email: <ppisarredhat.com>
- Name: Jitka Plesníková
- Email: <jplesnik@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: 2012-05-31
- Percentage of completion: %
- Development Status:
Completed items
TBD
Items in progress
TBD
Items still to be done
TBD
Detailed Description
Perl releases will be now every year and updates during year will be containing mainly bug fixes. The release 5.16.0 should be stable release, but 5.16.1 should contain bugfixes for issues introduced in 5.16.0.
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora as bleeding edge distribution should be shipping new release of perl as one of the first distributions.
Scope
How To Test
Download packages from koji's buildroot dist-f16-perltest or try your packages with rebuild build requirements related to perl.
User Experience
Dependencies
Contingency Plan
Documentation
- changes between 5.14.0 and 5.16.x http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.16.0/pod/perldelta.pod
- packaging guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl
- how to update modules and dual-lived modules: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl/updates
- new macros from rpm with different filter http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/DependencyGenerator
- external generator of dependencies (outside of rpm) perl.{prov,req}