Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> writes: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt dijo [Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:38:06PM +0100]: >>>> Wouldn't the release team be pissed if the perl5.10 transition is done >>>> without them be aware if it? >> *cough* I was well aware of the transition and have kept it in mind for >> most of the recent planning. It needs a bit of coordination with other >> transitions, as both the python and the OCaml 3.10.2 transition will >> also need some binNMUs, putting additional load on the buildds. I tried >> pinging Brendan in IRC a few times in the past two weeks to talk about >> the issue, but never was around at the right time to actually speak with >> him. I guess doing it by mail is more sane, anyway :) > Most of the packages will be anyway arch:all, so they will not IMHO > put too much of a burden on buildds. http://ftp-master.debian.org/~he/perl-NMUs is a list of packages depending on '(perlapi-5.8|libperl5.8)'. We will need to schedule about ~295 binNMUs for perl5.10, for such small packages such as abiword, postgres-* and most of our mail servers. This will put *massive* load on the build machines. Marc -- BOFH #272: Netscape has crashed
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