Re: perl 5.8 questions/comments
Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> For the moment my principal concern was working the bugs (such as the
> man page thing above) out of perl, testing the packaging procedure,
> embedded interpreters and so on.
>
> The rationale for providing a developer writable incoming directory was
> prinipally to allow maintainers to test their own packages, although in
> some instances that also may require an NMU of some dependencies.
>
> For my own purposes, I've done MUs of my own packages, plus some binary
> NMUs on my development arch simply to satisfy dependencies. Although
> feel free to do sourceful NMUs if you wish.
>
> Unless indicated to me otherwise by mail, anything which is dropped into
> my incoming and processed into the pool will be copied into ftp-master's
> incoming at the end of the testing period (a week or two).
I meant to ask -- when updating XS module packages for 5.8, should they
be made to build-dep on that version of perl? That may be necessary
once they hit the real archive to ensure that autobuilders build them
against the new version of perl.
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