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| author | Aaron Crane <arc@cpan.org> | 2015-11-15 15:10:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2015-11-19 13:16:19 +0000 |
| commit | 83e412526f3e30fa8c5b20c31a2269c6ce286d00 (patch) | |
| tree | 51826f731dfc476a06aa98bfd67ba05643798d56 | |
| parent | 826a863e696ebe18115c5ce7cb7a2c9898081ba6 (diff) | |
| download | perl-83e412526f3e30fa8c5b20c31a2269c6ce286d00.tar.gz | |
maint policy: allow fixes for new features
As (Steve Hay)++ said on-list:
I think it's a shame if users get a 5.X.0 release with some shiny new
features which I hope they're excited about and start making use of,
but then find bugs in those features and have to wait until 5.X+2.0,
rather than 5.X.1, for fixes.
rjbs++ clarified that, although such changes constitute a break in backwards
compatibility, there are two reasons why bugs in new features should be
fixed in maint:
* they delay people from using a feature for a year, because it does
something stupid
* they risk enshrining bad behavior under the usual program of bugward
compatibility
(cherry picked from commit 539a060caed4755d586113e0125241cc88d1048e)
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diff --git a/pod/perlpolicy.pod b/pod/perlpolicy.pod index 44fb99fb0b..063dae5114 100644 --- a/pod/perlpolicy.pod +++ b/pod/perlpolicy.pod @@ -291,6 +291,11 @@ upgrade from very old versions of perl to the latest version. =item * +Patches that fix bugs in features that were new in the corresponding 5.x.0 +stable release. + +=item * + Patches that fix anything which prevents or seriously impacts the build or installation of perl. |