On CÃad, 2005-03-16 at 02:33 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Alastair, > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:30:58PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > >* Steve Langasek > > > > > >| If you are planning any other transitions that will affect a lot of > > >| packages, please let us know in advance. We will need to complete the > > >| larger transitions as fast as possible, to get testing back into a > > >| nearly releasable state quickly again after the release. > > > Whats a large transition? I'm working on slang1->slang2 in a private > > repository; > > around 20 or so packages depending on it. > > > Currently slang2 is in pre-release; I'm working with upstream to merge > > Debian > > patches into it, and building all slang1 > > dependencies against it. > > > Expect patches in BTS two weeks after sarge releases. > > slang should, I hope, be a fairly small change; OTOH, we seem to still have > conflicting slang1 and slang1a-utf8 packages in the archive (conflicting > -dev packages at least), so it would certainly be nice to wrap this up and > only have to carry one version of this core library for etch.
Yes. Upstream has rewritten slang's unicode support, so there will only be one slang2 package going forward. > > Also, I am planning on obsoleting console-tools and console-data and > > transitioning to kbd; again, small but base change; see code ASAP to test > > for breakages. > > Any chance of getting to see this in experimental first? Yes. > Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
