Re: Is this a release blocker for 5.43.9?

On 3/20/26 07:37, James E Keenan 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.
> 

I should qualify this.  Since 5.43.9 is the release after which there 
should be "No user-visible changes to correctly functioning programs," 
if we can't fix it quickly, we should probably revert the breaking 
commit.  That should probably be discussed with the PSC and Tony Cook.