Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello Release team, > > Perl maintainers are to merge the package 'perl-modules' to 'perl'. > Currently these packages depend on each other. > > The transition plan: > > 1) move the contents of 'perl-modules' to 'perl', leaving 'perl-modules' > as an empty package that depends on 'perl' > > this should not break anything in the archive, and we are going to > prepare experimental packages first and then upload them to sid soon, > are you OK with this? > > 2) remove the package 'perl-modules' before Squeeze entirely > > this transition part needs sourceful uploads, but is remarkably easy in > sense all people that used 'perl-modules' already have 'perl' installed, > so there is no need to keep transition package next release, plus > requires no intrusive changes in affected packages, just updating > control files > > 2.1) file the bugs on affected packages to depend and build-depend on > 'perl' and not on 'perl-modules' with severity normal, ~130 packages > 2.2) wait two-three months, remove 'perl-modules' from sid, bump > severity of non-fixed bugs to serious > 2.3) wait a week, prepare NMUs to all packages with still non-fixed bugs > > Are you OK with this plan? > Ping? -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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