can macports be less strict with aux packages download?

[Bill Cole]

On 17 Jan 2018, at 12:06 (-0500), Jan Stary wrote:

> Perl 5.22 is last July.
> Is that considered "seriously outdated" in Perl land?

Perl 5.22 went "end of life" with the release of 5.26.0 last May. The 
5.22.4 release last July was a final (probably) rollup of security 
fixes. Unless there's some major security issue in the next few months 
(before 5.28 is released) there will never be a 5.22.5.

However, that doesn't really make 5.22 seriously outdated in "Perl land" 
because most apps and non-core modules drop backwards compatibility very 
slowly and even many core modules are maintained independently such that 
updated versions can be installed on "end of life" Perl versions. This 
is intrinsically difficult to fit into a package management system using 
an orthodox conceptual model of versions and dependencies.

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