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| author | Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org> | 2010-08-17 01:06:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-06-05 06:40:48 -0700 |
| commit | d78ffab7d8546c2f9733984f24957358625fecf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 5853220cfe9c2f9bf0ea442921633838aca55303 | |
| parent | b09c4a314c4a0fe3add48883458dbb105806d530 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d78ffab7d8546c2f9733984f24957358625fecf0.tar.gz | |
Release managers need to be careful in INSTALL
Everything is binary incompatible with each other, except for maint releases
from the same maint branch.
(cherry picked from commit c1b1cb88313395d8eb2084544a4f225116877020)
| -rw-r--r-- | Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index f104b47a1c..9432c1f765 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -322,6 +322,11 @@ I<You MUST SKIP this step for SNAPSHOT> Review and update INSTALL to account for the change in version number; in particular, the "Coexistence with earlier versions of perl 5" section. +Be particularly careful with the section "Upgrading from 5.X.Y or earlier". For +stable releases, this needs to refer to the last release in the previous +development cycle. For blead releases, it needs to refer to the previous blead +release. + =item * I<You MUST SKIP this step for SNAPSHOT> |