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Perl 5.16
Summary
Perl 5.16 brings a lot of changes. Details about them could be found at perl [delta]
Owner
- Name: Petr Písař
- Email: <ppisarredhat.com>
- Name: Jitka Plesníková
- Email: <jplesnik@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 18
- Last updated: 2012-05-31
- Percentage of completion: %
- Development Status:
Completed items
TBD
Items in progress
TBD
Items still to be done
TBD
Detailed Description
Benefit to Fedora
Scope
How To Test
Download packages from koji's buildroot dist-f16-perltest or try your packages with rebuild build requirements related to perl.
User Experience
Dependencies
Contingency Plan
Documentation
- changes between 5.14.0 and 5.16.x http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.16.0/pod/perldelta.pod
- packaging guidelines http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Perl
- how to update modules and dual-lived modules: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Perl/updates
- new macros from rpm with different filter http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/DependencyGenerator
- external generator of dependencies (outside of rpm) perl.{prov,req}