Perl 5.42 transition underway

Niko Tyni <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:36:20 +0300
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I have uploaded Perl 5.42.2 to Debian unstable, starting a 600+ package
transition. Wide uninstallability is to be expected in sid for the next
few days until the necessary rebuilds have been completed. Please avoid
unnecessary uploads of affected packages [1] until the transition is over
and perl has migrated to testing. There is no need to submit bug reports
about the uninstallability of related packages during this transition.

See the "perldelta" document [2] for information on upstream changes
since 5.40.

I expect we will have another transition later in the forky cycle for
the recently released Perl 5.44, but things are not ready for it quite
yet. So it's safer to do these transitions one at a time.

[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl-5.42.html
[2] https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/view/pod/perl5420delta.pod

Happy hacking,
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Niko

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