[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: perl-5.18.2-1 (x86) [test] Attn Maintainers with perl reqs

[Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>]

I've uploaded the first test packages for the new perl-5.18.2, x86
only, today, as test package.
Most problems in the last weeks were on 32bit only, 64bit has a much
better address space.

perl, perl_vendor, perl_manpages, perl_debugbuild

I'll upload the new 64bit version and my own missing perl subpackages
in the next few
days also.
No problems expected, as my smoker is pretty stable on 64bit.

Note that perl-5.18 has some new and maybe unexpected syntax warnings.
And there are still some minor bugs lurking. That's the price we have to pay.
See http://perldoc.perl.org/index-history.html
There are also some shiny new features, such as with Unicode.
I'll probably skip 5.20, and wait for 5.22 as this will probably have
improved hashtables
and better security.

Changes:
  - updated perlrebase to use the rebase -s database with a systemperl
in /usr/bin
  - improved automatic rebase with EUMM, not with Module::Build (using
rebase -s)
  - changed gcc-4 to gcc, g++-4 to g++ as there are no -4 variants anymore

  Changes in perl_vendor:
  - Replaced Crypt::SSLeay for CPAN::Reporter with Net::SSLeay,
LWP::Protocol::https and
    IO::Socket::SSL to support hostname verification.

In the next few weeks I hope that all maintainers with perl as
requirement will have updated
their packages as test, or can verify that they don't need to update,
so that we can have
a unified switch over as with 5.14.
Only packages which link to libperl or are building XS libs need to
update as soon as possible.
The others might want to check if their perl scripts are still
running, so that the pain after the switch is minimized.

It's really easy now with cygport and only 2 lines needed:

CPAN_AUTHOR=who
inherit perl

It's only 173 setup.hints in those packages :)

perl/perl-libwin32
perl/perl-Win32-GUI
parrot/parrot-devel
parrot/rakudo-star

perl-ExtUtils-Depends
perl-Clone
perl/perl-Text-CSV ??
perl/perl-Text-CSV_XS
perl/perl-IO-Tty
perl/perl-Error
delta
copyright-update
cvsutils
autobuild
postgresql/postgresql-plperl
openssl
sendxmpp
groff/groff-perl
perl-Locale-gettext
perl-Tk
subversion
weechat/weechat-perl
gtk-doc
stow
help2man
w3m
icon-naming-utils
texi2html
atool
llvm/clang-analyzer
cdrkit/genisoimage
man/manlint
stunnel
snownews
grepmail
ddir
libproxy/perl-Net-Libproxy
TeXmacs
openldap/openldap-server
boost/libboost-devel
colorgcc
net-snmp
libbonobo2
quilt
lftp
monotone
mm-common
netpbm
vim/vim-common
docbook-utils
aspell

-- 
Reini Urban
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