Thanks to everyone who participated in the pkg-perl BoF at DebConf today, locally or remote. I'm pasting the notes taken with gobby below to have something like more stable minutes. Please feel free to ask for clarifications etc. Cheers, gregor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ agenda: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianPerlGroup/OpenTasks IRC: (#debconf-roundroom or better) #debian-perl video: http://video.debconf.org:8000/Roundroom.ogv (or http://debconf11.debconf.org/watch.xhtml) --- introduction round ------------------ - some old people, - some new people (yay!) test suites: ------------ http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2011/07/msg00067.html - run everything we can, except RELEASE_TESTS, AUTHOR_TESTS, net-needing tests. - more or less matching CPAN test policy - possible issue with repacked/embedded copies? - gregoa dramatically commits! state of git migration: ----------------------- test conversion: vasks.debian.org:~bremner/pkg-perl-git/$foo.git map of svn history: vasks.debian.org:~bremner/pkg-perl-history.org remaining issues: - dh-make-perl moved from /tools; should be easy - some other packages were renamed - given map file, we can fix. New PET: -------- - new (new) version - mostly working - http://pet.debian.net/pkg-perl/pet.cgi - git://git.debian.org/pet/pet3.git Removal Policy: --------------- - attic for repos of removed packages Perl6 ----- - Should we work on perl6 packages? - Wait and see what CPAN does? - If someone wants to package perl6 module within the team, OK. Perl 5.14 - targetted for wheezy? Q: from IRC - Will perl be upgraded in stable/squeeze-backports - Answer (ansgar): basically impossible Q: from Jonas - Is CDBS a big problem for the team? - Please *do* touch my package A: not a big problem. Comment from db that he is "CDBS-tolerant" Q: From diocles - should we have NMU policy for non-team packages? - refer to debian-policy Q: request from dod, feedback on using Config::Edit::Model -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - PGP/GPG key ID: 0x8649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #430: Mouse has out-of-cheese-error
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