Bug#815036: transition: msgpack-c

[James McCoy <jamessan@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 05:01:33PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 27/08/16 04:39, James McCoy wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 10:10:29AM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 06:17:31PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> >>> + libdata-messagepack-perl has a fix upstream but no "stable" release
> >>>   including it
> > 
> > There is now an actual upstream release with the msgpack-c changes.
> > 
> >>> + libdata-messagepack-stream-perl could be NMUed once
> >>>   libdata-messagepack-perl is available.
> >>
> >> No activity on either of these.
> >>
> >> They're only used by libcatmandu-store-lucy-perl and
> >> libtext-xslate-perl, which have no rdeps.  Should I bump the severity of
> >> these bugs or suggest removing them?
> > 
> > I've pinged these bugs and got responses that the Perl folks would be ok
> > with those two packages being removed from testing (not unstable since
> > packaging was done in response to an RFP) to help the transition and
> > possibly bring visibility to the needed maintenance.
> > 
> > Given that there's been some activity upstream around these packages,
> > I'm a little more confident about performing NMUs than I had been.
> > 
> > Thoughts on how to proceed?
> 
> Upload msgpack-c to unstable, then you bump the remaining bugs to RC.

Done.  The tmate maintainer is going to move the compatible version from
experimental to unstable today.

Cheers,
-- 
James
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