On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:23:26 -0500, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > How about doing some "update sprint" and try to get the count down > > close to zero until the end of March? Should be doable if everybody > > grabs a package and invests a couple of minutes. > I'm already working as fast as I can, sir! I know, I was hoping that some others might join the efforts of the tireless package updaters :) > > Debhelper 8 > I haven't needed to do this so far, as debhelper 7 seems to be fine > for most packages Right. > (and was the last major time an upgrade was > warranted, since it gave us the short rules format). And 7.0.8, and 7.0.50, and 7.2.13, and 7.3.7, and ... whatever is documented in debhelper.pod :) > That being said, however, debhelper 8 fixes the stupidity of > preferring Makefile.PL when Build.PL was present (this happened in the > older 7.x releases), so I am all for this change (as long as, of > course, 8.x doesn't introduce any stupidities of its own). At the moment I see 97 package with "8" in d/compat, and I'm not aware of any problems so far. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ -- GPG key IDs: 0x8649AA06, 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Nick Drake: Which Will
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