RE: SPEC UPDATE: [rt.cpan.org #55602] Bug #12239 was a mistake

On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Apr 20, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Ricardo Signes wrote:
>
> > I'd really like to get the "perldoc command broken" into 5.12.1, and
> > I think we'll have the best chance of that if the delta to the new
> > version is as small as possible. Can we do 3.14 just for that (and
> > the already-fixed warnings) and then 3.15 ASAP with further
> > improvements?
>
> Does it really matter? 5.12.1 won't pull in the full 3.14 release
> anyway, just the regression. Does it matter whether or not it's
> released with any fixes before it goes to maint?

Yes, it does matter:

1) CPAN modules bundled in Perl releases are supposed to have a matching
   CPAN release.  Exceptions are meant for emergencies only.

2) It makes the job of the core committer a lot easier if they can just
   upgrade the module in its entirety without having to manually extract
   a minimal patch.

Cheers,
-Jan