Re: libc6-2.3.1 and perl-5.8 in testing?
Looking briefly through the list I posted 2 months ago[1], these include
but may no longer be limited to:
* abiword FTBFS #161149
frozen-bubble out of date on arm
gimp1.2-perl out of date on alpha
gnome-db out of date on alpha
* libberkeleydb-perl VERY old FTBFS #104885
libcdk-perl hppa FTBFS; no bug filed
libcflow-perl out of date on m68k
* libgd-noxpm-perl still needs rebuild for perl 5.8
* libgd-perl still needs rebuild for perl 5.8
libgtk-perl out of date on mipsel
libjcode-pm-perl possibly no problem; weird hppa bin-NMU?
libnet-ssleay-perl out of date on hppa
* postgresql out of date on s390, mipsel
(also has a number of grave bugs..)
libming out of date on arm
IMHO, it's time to remove some of the above unmaintained software, marked with
stars, from testing. And in the case of the arches that arn't keeping up,
remove the outdated binaries for those architectures so all the rest can get
in. We have about 210 perl releated (and not so perl releated) packages blocked
from testing due to the few above. Also note that a single RC bug in most any
of those 200+ packages is also enough to keep the whole mess out of testing,
unless AJ pulls some trick.
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[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/debian-devel-200210/msg00185.html
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