Bug#712615: transition: perl 5.18

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:39:15PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 23:01:00 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> 
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: transition
> > 
> > Dear release team,
> > 
> > As discussed briefly in the thread starting at
> > <http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2013/05/msg00595.html>,
> > now seems like a good time to get the perl 5.18 transition on the
> > roadmap.
> 
> As discussed today, things are looking pretty good, with subversion and
> libtemplate-perl being possible problems.  I'm not sure how to handle
> subversion; having to upload perl and subversion to tpu because the sid
> version isn't suitable isn't ideal, other ideas welcome...

Other ideas which were discussed here at Debconf include temporarily
removing libsvn-perl, and uploading the version currently in testing
to unstable again (unlikely to be acceptable I guess).

The former option would render the following small but probably
important set of packages uninstallable:

  svn-buildpackage
  libsvn-web-perl
  kgb-client
 |git-svn
  subversion-tools