Bug#619117: [jesse@fsck.com: Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1]
On 20/04/2011 14:16, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> So, here we are.
>
> I wouldn't mind getting initial packages prepared, to make sure there
> are no complete showstoppers for Debian, but we do have something of
> a problem in that there's only one experimental...
>
> I wonder whether this is the time to give up with the perl 5.12
> transition and make a start on the perl 5.14 one proper. I still think
> that the best route would be to go via perl 5.12, so people have a
> chance to see deprecation warnings for a bit before things break in
> perl 5.14, but based on the timescales I don't know whether that
> is the best practical option any more. Based on activity at
> <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619117> and
> <http://release.debian.org/transitions/> (where perl isn't even listed
> as planned) it doesn't like the perl 5.12 migration is likely to happen
> any time soon.
>
http://release.debian.org/transitions doesn't list all planned transitions.
Some maintainers asked us to list their transition there, so that they have
the list of affected packages and they start preparing their transition. It
lists packages and creteria for every transitions, and people can use/see
them to see if their package are/will be affected by some transition.
The real list to look at is (IMHO):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=release.debian.org@packages.debian.org;tag=transition
So, definitely, not being listed on the transition tracker is not a sign
that we forgot about your transition :)
Looking at the current state of ongoing transitions, we might be able to
start the Perl 5.12 transition really soonish¹. Any remark/comment is
welcome.
¹: one month² max from now.
²: that's an _estimated_ upper bound :)
Regards,
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