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Bug 647504 - perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.460.0 Stabilisation request
Summary: perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.460.0 Stabilisation request
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Stabilization (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial
Assignee: Gentoo Perl team
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Keywords: STABLEREQ
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Reported: 2018-02-13 14:00 UTC by MW
Modified: 2018-02-15 03:44 UTC (History)
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Description MW 2018-02-13 14:00:24 UTC
Please stabilise =perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.460.0 and =virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.460.0-r1.

They are pulled in by =dev-perl/Data-Compare-1.250.0 (which is pulled in by =dev-tex/biber-2.5), and have been working fine here since November 2016..
Comment 1 Kent Fredric (IRC: kent\n) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-02-15 03:44:09 UTC
Its not standard practice to stabilize perl-core, and we avoid it if at all possible.

Additionally, Data-Compare only requires that any version of virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils is installed ( which is satisfied by having any version of dev-lang/perl installed ).

We'd only *consider* stabilizing a perl-core package if a specific newer version was necessary.

Because prematurely stabilizing perl-core/ and virtual/perl-* ahead of dev-lang/perl tends to create issues later.

Subsequently, unless a more compelling argument can be made for stabilizing this, it will have to be rejected, because this boils down to requesting that dev-lang/perl-5.26 be stabilized, which is not anywhere near happening.

( we usually only even provide these virtuals for people who are adults and wish to be potentially responsible for possibly breaking their own system/fixing a confused portage while running ~arch )