Some dual-lifed modules in perl's dist/ directory are newer, have a higher VERSION number than the modules on CPAN. Our problem: modules installed by packages from the perl-core category will hide/replace the core modules. Solutions: - only add perl-5.14.0 as provider for the virtual/ of those dual-life distributions. Which means we have to mask/keyword these virtuals as dev-lang/perl. - we pester upstream to release updates - ? I just started to update the virtuals and found: - Attribute-Handlers - Net-Ping - Locale-Maketext
Solution: - We compare the versions and ignore the minor changes: Attribute-Handlers: only spelling fixes, Net-Ping: spelling in Ping.pm, Test->Test::More migration Locale-Maketext: spelling, no warnings 'once' in Maketext.pm
perl-5.14* will never go stable and should be removed. So, closed.