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author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2014-03-28 21:40:49 +0000 |
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committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2014-03-28 21:40:49 +0000 |
commit | 3804a1f79b6eceb6c76a16ef56efe2c533f65c4c (patch) | |
tree | 814f087f8e99b244012900a04ec1f500da8c4ae6 /Porting | |
parent | fb5a6c43a8bf77b89047f06b2d3932698843b7c9 (diff) | |
download | perl-3804a1f79b6eceb6c76a16ef56efe2c533f65c4c.tar.gz |
RMG - we no longer have UPSTREAM => 'undef' in Porting/Maintainers.pl
Diffstat (limited to 'Porting')
-rw-r--r-- | Porting/release_managers_guide.pod | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod index 4504b4eb78..3bf93a687e 100644 --- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod +++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod @@ -203,10 +203,10 @@ be dealt with. You do this by not passing the C<-x> option: $ ./perl -Ilib Porting/core-cpan-diff -a -o /tmp/corediffs -Passing C<-u cpan> (and maybe C<-u undef>) will probably be helpful, since -it limits the search to distributions with those upstream sources. (It's -OK for blead upstream to differ from CPAN because those dual-life releases -usually come I<after> perl is released. +Passing C<-u cpan> will probably be helpful, since it limits the search to +distributions with 'cpan' upstream source. (It's OK for blead upstream to +differ from CPAN because those dual-life releases usually come I<after> perl +is released.) See also the C<-d> and C<-v> options for more detail (and the C<-u> option as mentioned above). You'll probably want to use the C<-c cachedir> option to @@ -219,10 +219,7 @@ For a BLEAD release with 'cpan' upstream, if a CPAN release appears to be ahead of blead, then consider updating it (or asking the relevant porter to do so). If blead contains edits to a 'cpan' upstream module, this is naughty but sometimes unavoidable to keep blead tests passing. Make sure the affected file -has a CUSTOMIZED entry in F<Porting/Maintainers.pl>. For 'undef' upstream, -you'll have to use your judgment for whether any delta should be ignored (like -'blead' upstream) or treated like a 'cpan' upstream and flagged. Ask around on -#p5p if you're not sure. +has a CUSTOMIZED entry in F<Porting/Maintainers.pl>. If you are making a MAINT release, run C<core-cpan-diff> on both blead and maint, then diff the two outputs. Compare this with what you expect, and if |