Updating perl 5.36.0 => 5.42.2 - some questions (was: Re: perl-Net-DNS: Not updated)

[Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer@ipfire.org>]

Hi,

On 12.06.2026 13:19, Adolf Belka wrote:
> ...
> Feel free to do so but maybe you should also look at updating the perl package itself.
>...

I did. But I'm not quite sure what to do next and need a hint.

After "a few" rootfile-adjustments I got a build based on 'next' with
'perl 5.42.2' that is building without any errors. No seen problems.

Adjusting the rootfile for the new perl version was a bit...extensive,
but I think I managed it. Build is running without any errors.

But there are about 70 rootfiles from 'common' to 'packages' who thought
they were all alone now and wanted to come along. They all contained the
perl version string '5.36.0', which now had to be changed to 5.42.2.

I think I need to push these files together with the actual perl update.
This will take some place for an update... Since this is my first perl
update I was a bit surprised how many files were affected.

Would this be ok? Updating perl leads to about ~70 files that need to be
updated too and pushed because of changed rootfiles?

Best
Matthias