Re: Is this a release blocker for 5.43.9?

Thank you for confirming and creating
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/24302

Unless someone advises otherwise in the next short while, I shall continue
with the release as-is.

Cheers,
Eric


On Fri, 20 Mar 2026 at 12:37, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3/20/26 06:54, Eric Herman wrote:
> > While testing 5.43.9 tarballs prior to release, I encountered a
> > YAML::PP failure related to Tie::IxHash.
> >
> > We bisected the commits between 5.43.8 and 5.43.9 (not pushed) and found
> >
> > # first bad commit: [b3f68b479c9876437620503fb7d54e14bceadcee] Convert
> > OP_CONST hash keys in key+val lists to HEKs
> >
> > Should this block the  5.43.9 release?
> >
>
> IMO, it should not block 5.43.9 -- though we should, of course, try to
> fix it before then if possible.
>
> We generally reserve the term "release-blocker" for something that must
> be fixed before the annual *production* release can be issued.  To me,
> at least, this implies a stricter standard than we would use for a
> monthly dev release.
>
> At the moment I'm confirming your report with our regular
> Porting/bisect.pl program.  When that is done I'll open a bug ticket and
> label it BBC.  That should be the place where we discuss the specific
> Tie-IxHash/YAML-PP problem.  If this problem is severe enough, we can
> always slap a "release blocker" label on the ticket.
>