-=| Dominic Hargreaves, Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 06:41:16PM +0000 |=- > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 05:30:41PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:05:40 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > > > > The obvious way would seem to be move > > > libencode-perl out of attic/ and update it to the latest upstream > > > release and upload to unstable (or, conservatively, experimental). > > > Presumably we'd then also need to update perl 5.12 to add a > > > Replaces: for this module. > > > > > > Note that this would be necessary even with perl 5.12 moved to sid, > > > to support backports. > > > > > > Does this seem like a reasonable strategy? > > > > Sounds good to me. > > Okay. I've prepared this for upload and will do so next week. > CCing perl@packages.debian.org in case this needs some change in > the version of perl in experimental. I think 'Replaces' above should be 'Conflicts'. The perl maintainers should have enough experience with the situation anyway :)
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