Upgrading the `perl` component to a new version

One of the many components included in Git for Windows' SDK is the perl package. Upgrading to a new Perl version is unfortunately a bit more involved than only following the advice in Building new package versions. In addition to adjusting the patches applied via the PKGBUILD script, the major problem with Perl is that its DLL embeds the Perl version in its file name.

As a consequence, all native Perl modules are broken immediately after upgrading to a new major Perl version. As far as Git for Windows is concerned, the affected components are:

• subversion
• perl-Net-SSLeay
• perl-HTML-Parser
• perl-TermReadKey
• perl-Locale-Gettext
• perl-XML-Parser
• perl-YAML-Syck

Therefore, immediately after a successful upgrade of the perl component to a new major Perl version (as of time of writing, the most recent such upgrade was to v5.32.0), these components have to be rebuilt, typically by forcing an incremented pkgrel.