Some notes/TODO relating to perl interpreter maintenance.

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2011-February/001678.html is Niko's Feb 2011 post about work needed.

Work required before perl 5.12 can be uploaded to unstable

Rebuilding packages

The main complication is that we need unofficial binNMUs of the perlapi-* and libperl reverse dependencies so that they can be used as build dependencies for rebuilding the rest.

The scripts at http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/scripts/perl-5.10-transition/perlapi.out?view=markup can be used to determine the necessary binNMUs; the order also matters because the dependencies form a chain.

Example: libdevel-caller-perl is needed by libdevel-lexalias-perl, libpadwalker-perl is needed by libdevel-caller-perl etc.

Other issues

List based on http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/perl-maintainers/2010-March/001121.html

Generic tasks for a new upstream release