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Document BLEAD-FINAL perldelta process
Co-authored-by: Philippe Bruhat (BooK) <[email protected]>
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Porting/release_managers_guide.pod

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Read F<Porting/how_to_write_a_perldelta.pod>, and try to make sure that
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every section it lists is, if necessary, populated and complete. Copy
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edit the whole document.
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every section it lists is, if necessary, populated and complete.
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In the case of a BLEAD-FINAL, all perldeltas from the 5.X series must be
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merged into F<pod/perldelta.pod>. The process starts with
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./perl -Ilib Porting/merge-deltas.pl
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The resulting F<pod/perldelta.pod> will need to be edited. In particular,
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lists will need to be merged. Sections which were describe changes which
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were reverted will need to be removed. Some items may benefit from being
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merged into a new summary.
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You won't be able to automatically fill in the "Updated Modules" section until
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after L<Module::CoreList> is updated (as described below in

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