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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-01-29 14:23:37 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-01-29 14:23:37 +0000
commita8ec9917c1913282d626f8c7467e40e55b7f5c97 (patch)
tree630aef121cd881925df2c2120ad49f1deee4f188
parent8884fcd5087f6d07f1f1c206ae42dd59c939a605 (diff)
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RMG - Note that Porting/cmVERSION.pl should be used to check more releases
t/porting/cmp_version.t only runs Porting/cmVERSION.pl for the previous release of the current branch, but we need to check that our versions differ from modules in releases from other branches too. For example, when releasing 5.20.2 we need to check against 5.18.4 too.
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diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
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+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -535,6 +535,20 @@ then configure and build perl so that you have a Makefile and porting tools:
$ ./Configure -Dusedevel -des && make
+=head3 Check module versions
+
+For each Perl release since the previous release of the current branch, check
+for modules that have identical version numbers but different contents by
+running:
+
+ $ ./perl Porting/cmpVERSION.pl --tag=v5.X.YY
+
+(This is done automatically by F<t/porting/cmp_version.t> for the previous
+release of the current branch, but not for any releases from other branches.)
+
+Any modules that fail will need a version bump, plus a nudge to the upstream
+maintainer for 'cpan' upstream modules.
+
=head3 update Module::CoreList
=head4 Bump Module::CoreList* $VERSIONs