From: <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Cc: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>,
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: [wrynose][PATCH 09/20] perl: inherit upstream-stable-release-point
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 11:59:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260902095920.2840293-10-daniel.turull@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260902095920.2840293-1-daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
From: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
perlpolicy documents a strict maintenance-branch policy: new releases of
a maint branch may only contain security/CVE fixes, crashing bugs,
regressions, build and install blockers, portability fixes and factual
documentation corrections, and must not contain patches that "add or
remove features", "break binary compatibility", or "add new warnings or
errors or deprecate features". New dual-life module versions are
explicitly deferred to the next stable series. So upgrades within a
major.minor are stable point upgrades per the OE-Core stable release
policy (ref-manual, "Stable Point Release Upgrades"). Long-lived
per-even-minor maint branches back this up, maint-5.6 through maint-5.42,
with a documented back-porting vote process.
https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/ref-manual/release-process.html#stable-point-release-upgrades
https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/v5.42.2/pod/perlpolicy.pod#L259
Checked the last two point releases for feature creep. perldelta makes
this easy to see, as maint releases carry no "Core Enhancements" section
at all:
5.42.2 (Mar 29 2026): one CVE in a vendored dependency, CVE-2026-4176
in Compress::Raw::Zlib, plus module version bumps. States "There are no
changes intentionally incompatible with 5.42.1".
5.42.1 (Mar 08 2026): four fixes -- a Configure fix so POSIX locale
values can be passed in for cross-compilation, an AIX thread-safe
locale workaround, a Win32 build fix, and module version bumps. States
"There are no changes intentionally incompatible with Perl 5.42.0".
5.42.0 (Jul 02 2025) is the series-opening release, not a point
release: it adds seven language-level features, confirming X.Y.0 bumps
are feature bumps that must stay outside the regex.
Cross-checked the previous series the same way: 5.40.1, 5.40.2 and 5.40.3
all show the same profile, with security, module, documentation, test and
bug-fix sections only and no Core Enhancements.
The policy forbidding binary-compatibility breaks in maint releases also
covers the ABI concern directly.
Already tracked this way on the OE stable branches, counting only bumps
made since each branch forked from master: kirkstone 5.34.1 -> 5.34.3 and
scarthgap 5.38.2 -> 5.38.4 are both in-series point bumps. wrynose is
still at 5.42.0 while master is at 5.42.2, so it is missing the
CVE-2026-4176 fix -- exactly the tracking gap --stable is meant to close.
AI-Generated: Kiro with Claude Opus 5
Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Adapted for wrynose: applied to perl_5.42.0.bb (upstream: perl_5.44.0.bb).
(cherry picked from commit 73ae055e5a05078225226355f1545fc9e464e78d)
---
meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.42.0.bb | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.42.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.42.0.bb
index 1833b7a352..e5f2db4bb9 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.42.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/perl/perl_5.42.0.bb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ SRC_URI[perl.sha256sum] = "e093ef184d7f9a1b9797e2465296f55510adb6dab8842b0c3ed53
B = "${WORKDIR}/perl-${PV}-build"
-inherit upstream-version-is-even update-alternatives
+inherit upstream-version-is-even update-alternatives upstream-stable-release-point
DEPENDS += "perlcross-native bzip2 zlib virtual/crypt"
DEPENDS:append:class-native = " bzip2-replacement-native"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-02 9:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-02 9:59 [wrynose][PATCH 00/20] backport inherit upstream-stable-release-point daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 01/20] recipeutils: add optional stable_upgrade parameter to get_recipe_upgrade_status daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 02/20] upstream-stable-release-point.bbclass: add bbclass for stable point upgrade daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 03/20] devtool/upgrade.py: add --stable option daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 04/20] systemd: inherit upstream-stable-release-point daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 05/20] glib-2.0: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 06/20] dbus: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 07/20] xz: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 08/20] git: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` daniel.turull [this message]
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 10/20] libxml2: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 11/20] python3: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 12/20] openssl: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 13/20] binutils: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 14/20] libgcrypt: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 15/20] sqlite3: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 16/20] lttng-tools: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 17/20] util-linux: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 18/20] lttng-ust: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 19/20] babeltrace2: " daniel.turull
2026-09-02 9:59 ` [wrynose][PATCH 20/20] lttng-modules: " daniel.turull
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