On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 08:28 -0400, Galen Charlton wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:29 AM, Ansgar Burchardt<ans...@43-1.org> wrote: > > No new packages will be added to oldstable, and stable/testing/unstable > > already have Perl 5.10, so I do not see why we should package it. > > I'm proposing this for the benefit of users of oldstable who are are > careful about upgrading Perl, but if there's a policy against adding > new packages to oldstable ever, that's fine, as 'cpan IPC::Cmd' is a > viable alternative. Would it make any difference if I proposed this > as a new package for etch-backports?
It won't be eligible for etch-backports unless a version of the package reaches testing (and unless it's not possible to just apt pin it from there). It might get packaged for unstable/testing if there's a good reason why we need a newer version (CPAN has 0.46 and perl-modules has 0.40_1). Looks like there's some bug fixes... -- Tim Retout <t...@retout.co.uk> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
