Hello amigos!
Here are the minutes from the second meeting of the Debian Perl Group
at DebConf9. Sorry for taking so long to prepare them.
There are a couple of open tasks so if you are looking for some easy
stuff to do, please claim it :)
* svn->git. dam confessed guilty for not making any progress here :|
(which can be good for all svn addicts :P)
* auto-updating d/rules after checksumming:
- dh-make-perl to create d/rules with the checksum tag
- dh-make-perl to update d/rules only if its checksum matches
a known generated one
- tim takes care of this
* stale WiP
- PET section in place thanks to gregoa++; no cron job needed
- tincho adds flash
* d/changelog pseudo-headers
- IGNORE-VERSION implemented in PET by ryan52++, bricas++ started
filling it
- http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks/ChangelogHeaders
to be tracked by dam
* unifying source package names
- easy non-lib*-perl packages are renamed to lib*-perl by gregoa++
- the rest are more of an applications
- renaming would cause problems for BTS tracking, but this is not
the case for us since the packages in question are almost
bug-free
* rewriting packageckeck in Perl
- jeremiah++ started the rewrite
* proper place to note upstream bug tracker
- X-Contact-BTS field in debian/copyright
* easier editting of patch headers and forwarding the patches
upstream
- we need someone to write patch-editting tool
- reward is the ability to choose the name of the tool.
- then we need some way to track patches not forwarded upstream and
hunt them down
- tincho writes a new PET template for displaying non-forwarded
patches
* fixing lintian repo-wide
- to be fixed on upload, unless someone works on that and gets our
warm regards
* ancient Standard-Version
- ancient Standard-Version-s need to be hunted down and refreshed
- maybe update packages not uploaded since long time (sarge) or
these with old dh compatibility (or missing d/compat).
- volunteers needed
* unify d/repack
- Ryan52++ is working on this. almost done. comments and success
stories are welcome.
* post-lenny:
- done: remove transitional packages (gregoa++)
- posponed for after squeeze: removal of B-D on "perl-modules (>=
5.10) | libFOO-perl" (i.e. dropping the alternative)
* upload half-adopted packages
- uploads are warranted at least because of the BTS. 70-80
- ansgar++ takes over.
* dh-make-perl
- progresses slowly (to say it mild); fresh forces welcome; as well
as bug reports
* M::I
- we write a statement of protest against M::I viral behaviour
- gregoa+dam prepare a proposal
Thanks to everybody attending.
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dam
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