Bug#1140175: transition: perl

Control: tags -1 pending

On 23/07/2026 00:28, Niko Tyni wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 10:47:06AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> Control: tags -1 confirmed
>>
>> On 16/06/2026 20:58, Niko Tyni wrote:
>>> Package: release.debian.org
>>> Severity: normal
>>> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
>>> Control: affects -1 + src:perl
>>> User: [email protected]
>>> Usertags: transition
> 
>>> I'd like to get Perl 5.42 from experimental to unstable + testing.
> 
>> Please go ahead.
> 
> Thanks, perl_5.42.2-3 uploaded and accepted.
> 
> I believe the binNMUs will need something like
> 
>    --extra-depends 'perl-base (>= 5.42.2)'
> 
> but I'm sure you already knew that :)

binNMU's autopkgtest were having issues because they are not installed with all 
needed packages from unstable, so there were a lot of bd-uninst, and we had to 
disable that.

After removing a few (somewhat-)leaf packages, perl has migrated to testing. 
There's still a handful of rdeps of libperl5.40 which need to migrate in order 
to completely finish this, but perl{,-base} 5.42 are now in testing and this is 
mostly done.

Cheers,
Emilio