Op 25-09-12 21:56, MJ Ray schreef:
I think that the current 3.8 packages won't work on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) or Debian 5 (lenny, currently also known as oldstable).
The packages don't support lenny as far as I'm concerned, so I'm OK with that. 10.04 we should perhaps support, I'm not sure. There is a new LTS out, but it's not all that old yet. However this will be a problem with the git and tarball versions also, although the make process should warn in that case. Solutions I see are: 1. packaging a newer libdatetime-perl - a bit of a bandaid but not without precedent, 2. rolling this patch in to the packaged version - I'm not a huge fan of the codebases diverging like that if I can help it, though it's happened temporarily in the past but only with package related parts, 3. ignore it and revise our supported versions - keeping in mind that it's probably acceptable to have a different, and more limited, set of those versions for packages vs. the tarball distribution. 1 and 2 I can do pretty quickly, 3 can be considered to be done already if it's best :) Of 1 and 2 I lean towards 1. It'll also help people deploying tarball/git versions. Robin.