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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2014-03-28 21:40:49 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2014-03-28 21:40:49 +0000
commit3804a1f79b6eceb6c76a16ef56efe2c533f65c4c (patch)
tree814f087f8e99b244012900a04ec1f500da8c4ae6 /Porting
parentfb5a6c43a8bf77b89047f06b2d3932698843b7c9 (diff)
downloadperl-3804a1f79b6eceb6c76a16ef56efe2c533f65c4c.tar.gz
RMG - we no longer have UPSTREAM => 'undef' in Porting/Maintainers.pl
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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