Bug#619117: [jesse@fsck.com: Perl 5.14.0 Release Candidate 1]
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:08:21PM +0200, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> 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.
Aha, that makes sense. A small point perhaps, but maybe the preamble of
that page could make clearer that it's only a list of selected
transitions :)
We're tracking work to be done on the perl transition at
<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=perl-5.12-transition;users=debian-perl@lists.debian.org> FWIW.
> 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 :)
I think that would be welcome from my points of view as perl maintainer.
The only concern I have is that it won't prejudice our chances of getting
perl 5.14 transitioned in good time too! I can't predict now how long
that will take to get ready, but in the steady state of one major perl
release a year I'd like to end up not lagging more than a few months
behind upstream. So perhaps we'd like to be asking for a perl 5.14
transition late summer of this year.
Having a rough indication of when you might be ready is good for us,
because it means I can focus efforts on fixing more transition bugs.
I have another round of mass-rebuild-log-processing to do at the moment.
I suppose the other question I have is: is there anything in our
current bug list (above) which would be a show-stopper from the
transition from your point of view? Obviously the more bugs we can get
cleared up beforehand, the better, but is there a certain threshold
you'd be looking for?
Dominic.
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