Re: this whole stupid thing (was Re: State of the Art wrt XML/XSL.)
Le Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:43:43AM -0400, Fred Reimer écrivait:
> integration of Perl into Debian. I did not know that every time there
> was a new Perl upgrade someone new needed to be found and designated the
> point person for coordinating the upgrade in Debian.
:) I'd gladly do the job if I had some time for it, but actually I
haven't. So someone else need to take this responsibility...
> My comments were not meant to flaunt my cable connection. They were to
> make the statement that much faster sites are available that would be
> glad to host the files.
Of course... I guess that Darren Stalder could make the packages available
on master or auric but since Darren has his own site, it really doesn't
matter ...
> to understand the desire to see Perl at a somewhat recent level in the
> unstable tree? Everyone knows that it's probably going to be quite a
I undertstand you. I was like you last year when I wanted to have
perl-5.005 and nothing happened. Until I decided to do the necessary jobs
of testing the package, of embarassing Darren with my remark « Have you
done it ? When will you do it ? If you don't do it right now, i'll do it
for you » ... and so on.
> 5.6 which was released on 3/23/2000. So what's the problem? Yes, I
> admit. I'm whining and complaining without doing the job myself because
Hehe :)
> Hopefully I've made myself clear about what I'm after here. I thought
> that Perl 5.6 was just about ready to be put in unstable if I just
> waited another week or two. Now I'm hearing that that would be a
> "nightmare." All I want is a timeframe on when it's going to be done.
As soon as someone is volunteering for the task of managing the upgrade...
Any volunteer here ? I don't want to take this responsibility but I'll
help anyway when it comes at doing NMUs and so on.
I can explain the job in more details if needed ...
> Are we looking at next month? In the Fall (which I suppose is Spring
> for those down under)? Anytime this year?
Hopefully. For perl-5.005 it was more than a year after the official
release IIRC. :-(
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/
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