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-p...@lists.debian.org> FWIW. > The real list to look at is (IMHO): > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=release.debian....@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. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110420143518.gm4...@urchin.earth.li
