Re: [Attn. Maintainers] Perl 5.26.1 (prepare for release)

[Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>]

The Perl 5.26 repository, still at http://cygwin.stromeko.net/perl-5.26,
has been updated (again due to an error in module search path) with the
prospective release version of Perl 5.26.1 and newly bootstrapped
distribution packages.  This upload now has dummy (obsoletion) packages
for distributions that were formerly imported from CPAN but now use
those built-in to Perl:

perl-CPAN-Meta
perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements
perl-Carp
perl-Config-Perl-V
perl-Module-Load-Conditional
perl-Pod-Simple
perl-Unicode-Collate
perl-Unicode-Normalize
perl-Win32
perl-XSLoader

Another distribution that hasn't been in use on Cygwin for quite some
time already is incompatible with Perl > 5.24 and will be obsoleted:

perl-Data-Alias

One distribution, perl-File-Path, has been patched in-core in
anticipation of upstream doing the same thing in a few months for 5.26.2
in order to fix CVE2017-6512 and is actually at version 2.14 (upstream
was still at 2.12_01).


You should either start over from your backed-up Cygwin installation
from before any previous tests or clean up and re-install all Perl
related packages by doing

$ rm -fr /usr/{share,lib}/perl5/{,vendor_perl/,site_perl/}
$ sed -i.bak -re 's/( perl[-_]?.*-)[0-9.]+-[0-9]+\.tar/\10-0.tar/' /etc/setup/installed.db

so that setup "updates" everything to do with Perl again.

Please build and prepare packages meant for release to Cygwin only with
this latest Perl version, but preferrably do no yet actually upload.
Otherwise, in the unlikely case of me still finding an error somewhere,
you may have to re-release your package(s).


Again the reminder that the following packages will have to be re-built since they
install perl modules:

biber:	             BibTeX replacement for users of BibLaTeX (installed binaries and support files)
git-svn:	     Subversion compatibility support for Git version control system
git:	             Distributed version control system
grepmail:	     search mailboxes for mail matching an expression (installed binaries and support files)
irssi:	             Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
nginx-mod_http_perl: Web and mail proxy server (installed binaries and support files)
nginx-mod_http_perl: Web and mail proxy server
po4a:	             Tools for translating various file formats with gettext (installed binaries and support files)
pristine-tar:	     Regenerate pristine tarballs (installed binaries and support files)
sendxmpp:            Commandline XMPP (jabber) utility (installed binaries and support files)
subversion-perl:     A version control system (perl bindings)


If there's any Perl distribution in co-maintenance where the
co-maintainer prefers to re-build and upload the package instead of just
using the one I have built, please let me know so I can remove these
before the Cygwin upload.  The current plan is that when each maintainer
has ready with the package rebuild, we will coordinate an upload so that
all packages can be released at the same time.  Tentatively we would
like to do that some time in CW41, so if that doesn't work for you,
please speak up.


Regards,
Achim.
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