Re: post-sarge transitions: slang
On Céad, 2005-03-16 at 02:33 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Alastair,
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:30:58PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> > >* Steve Langasek
> > >
> > >| If you are planning any other transitions that will affect a lot of
> > >| packages, please let us know in advance. We will need to complete the
> > >| larger transitions as fast as possible, to get testing back into a
> > >| nearly releasable state quickly again after the release.
>
> > Whats a large transition? I'm working on slang1->slang2 in a private repository;
> > around 20 or so packages depending on it.
>
> > Currently slang2 is in pre-release; I'm working with upstream to merge Debian
> > patches into it, and building all slang1
> > dependencies against it.
>
> > Expect patches in BTS two weeks after sarge releases.
>
> slang should, I hope, be a fairly small change; OTOH, we seem to still have
> conflicting slang1 and slang1a-utf8 packages in the archive (conflicting
> -dev packages at least), so it would certainly be nice to wrap this up and
> only have to carry one version of this core library for etch.
Yes. Upstream has rewritten slang's unicode support, so there will only
be one slang2 package going forward.
> > Also, I am planning on obsoleting console-tools and console-data and
> > transitioning to kbd; again, small but base change; see code ASAP to test
> > for breakages.
>
> Any chance of getting to see this in experimental first?
Yes.
> Thanks,
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