On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 00:19:39 +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote: > Unfortunately, many packages not maintained by the team still follow the > now obsolete policy used for Squeeze. It is vital that the transition > finishes before the release of Wheezy, in order to ensure coherence in > the installation and use of the Ruby libraries and applications in the > stable release. In order to talk the maintainers of these packages into > converting them to the new policy, we want to send an email to > debian-devel-announce@l.d.o with the content below. What does that mean? What breaks if not all packages are converted? > However, in case the transition is not completely finished for the > freeze, could you suggest ways in which the team can act? Is it > conceivable to add the end of the Ruby transition as a release goal? > Would it be OK to consider Ruby packages that have not transitioned as > NMU-able in order to make them comply to the new policy? On the other > hand, transitioning a packaging is quite invasive (e.g. most of the time it > includes renaming both source and binary packages), so perhaps you may > have other suggestions. > I can't imagine why renaming source packages would be required. Are bugs filed for these changes? With patches? Cheers, Julien
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