Re: planning a perl upload

[Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 04:57:20PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:

> On Monday 16 June 2008 20:00, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > I have a perl bugfix upload ready and I figured I'd check with you first
> > just in case it's a bad time for it for some reason.
> >
> > The biggest change bloats perl-base quite a bit due to UTF-8 issues
> > in D-I (#480533), but there seems to be no better way around that. The
> > rest is small packaging tweaks, straightforward bug fixes from upstream,
> > and one new feature (pod2man --utf8, #480997).
> >
> > The full changelog can be seen at
> >
> >  http://git.debian.org/?p=perl/perl.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/changelog
> 
> Unfortunatly this is quite long for a frozen package... (I'm not a release 
> team member...)
 
Sure it's long, I suppose that's why I haven't had any answer yet.

> > Please let me know if a sid upload is OK by you. I'll ask for the freeze
> > unblock separately when we're that far.

Once #487319 is fixed in lenny one way or another (see my other mail),
my request still stands.

To break this down a bit:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=perl&tag=pending

Things I would really want in lenny:

- 11 severity:important bugs: these should be easily justified

- #480719 and #482110: small packaging bugs, could arguably be
  considered severity:important

- #480428 (the LONG_MAX warnings, also #479610, #487025): the severity is
  probably too low, these warning messages are really annoying for our
  users and affect many packages

- #479957 (the SEEK_SET warnings, also #482280): as above

Documentation, no functionality changes:

- #144193, #357663, #412542, #484681, #443733, #447830

Things we can live without if that makes it better:

- Pod::Man update (#448204, #480997, #480565): I think
  the recommendation of the upstream author in #480997 to include this
  in lenny should weigh here because he (Russ Allbery) is a respected
  Debian Developer.

- CGI.pm upload fix (#483144): we're going to have a separate
  libcgi-pm-perl package again with a newer upstream version, so this
  is not strictly necessary

- #479540 (perl.h compilation warnings): cosmetics, but the fix is trivial

- #417528 (Math::BigFloat): this would just be nice to have now that
  there's finally a fix, but it's been broken since sarge so it's certainly
  not critical

Thanks,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org