On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:00:46AM -0800, Paul Steward wrote:
> Is Perl 5.8.0 stable on Woody? I have been advised that the binary
> compatibility problem has kept it out of the stable branch for
> approximately two years.
You were advised wrongly, I'm afraid. It sounds like your advisor
doesn't really know how Debian releases work. It's true that Perl 5.8
required us to recompile a number of packages due to binary
incompatibility, but that isn't why it's not part of the current stable
release.
> Is this the case and if so, when can Perl 5.8.0 be expected for Debian
> 3?
Packages are never upgraded in stable once it's released, aside from
security fixes and fixes for major breakages. Instead, we release an
*entire* new stable distribution *at once*. Perl 5.8.2 is already in our
testing distribution, and will be part of the next stable release when
that is made.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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