Re: Bug#866389: transition: perl 5.26

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

On 22/07/17 10:22, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 22/07/17 10:07, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>> On 21/07/17 22:53, Niko Tyni wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 10:19:11AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>>> On 20/07/17 22:51, Niko Tyni wrote:
>>>>> Control: block -1 with 869139
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:16:41PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>>>>> On 20/07/17 21:01, Niko Tyni wrote:
>>>>>>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 07:51:33PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>>>>>>> Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.26.html
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please let us know when it would be OK to upload Perl 5.26 to sid.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Awesome. Now is a good time. I have added some hints for the gsoap and
>>>>>> libprelude transitions, so they don't get entangled with this one.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks. I have an upload (almost) ready, but a last minute issue popped
>>>>> up as the fixed syslog-ng-incubator fails to build on s390x. See #869139.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you want me to hold off because of that?
>>>>
>>>> I think we can go ahead and worst case remove it as we were planning to before
>>>> it got fixed.
>>>
>>> Thanks. Uploaded earlier today, noting here for the sake of completeness.
>>
>> And binNMUs are scheduled for levels 1 and 2 since yesterday (not without
>> problems as I forgot that we need --extra-depends here, given perl-base is
>> installed on the chroots). Things were building fine now, I'll schedule the rest
>> of the binNMUs if things are looking fine.
> 
> binNMUs scheduled for all the rest as well, as things are looking good and the
> fast architectures are finished or almost finished.

Took a bit for armhf to catch up with the binNMUs, but after it did, things were
almost ready. With a handful of removals, perl is in testing now! Thanks to Ivo
for debugging and working around a britney crash.

Cheers,
Emilio