Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 09:02:53AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Bill > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:35:39AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Hi Bill > > > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:25:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:31:51AM +0100, Salvatore B

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-09 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Bill On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:35:39AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Bill > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:25:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:31:51AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > > Hi Dominic > > > > > > Only read trough yet (but not native

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-08 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:13:06 +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > >From 87c527dce3a9f8dcaca7cf43f830ce9ff178f4e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Dominic Hargreaves > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:11:29 + > Subject: [PATCH] Describe the Perl upgrade trigger > > --- > perl-policy.sgml | 20 +

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-08 Thread Niko Tyni
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > + > +Perl Package Upgrades > + > + Starting from perl 5.12.3-2, a dpkg trigger > + named perl-major-upgrade will be triggered by the > + postinst of the perl package during major

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-06 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Bill On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:25:31PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:31:51AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > Hi Dominic > > > > Only read trough yet (but not native english speaker): > > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:35:16PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-06 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 10:28:28PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:50:20PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:35:31PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > > On Sat, 28 May 201

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 09:13:06PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:50:20PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:35:31PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:53:52 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > > > > Is there progress

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-06 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:50:20PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:35:31PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > > On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:53:52 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > > Is there progress on the implementation of this feature ? > > > > It's in perl 5.12.3 since th

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:31:51AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Dominic > > Only read trough yet (but not native english speaker): > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:35:16PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Dominic Hargreaves > > --- > > perl-policy.sgml | 20 +++

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 19:50:20 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Is there progress on the implementation of this feature ? > > It's in perl 5.12.3 since the upload to unstable: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg6.html > So are you seconding this policy amendment ? If

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-06-06 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:35:31PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:53:52 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > Is there progress on the implementation of this feature ? > > It's in perl 5.12.3 since the upload to unstable: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/201

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-05-29 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:53:52PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Is there progress on the implementation of this feature ? > > So far there are a single second and Niko partial objection. > > For my part, I think this is important that the feature be documented (if > implemented) > but not nece

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-05-28 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 28 May 2011 21:53:52 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Is there progress on the implementation of this feature ? It's in perl 5.12.3 since the upload to unstable: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/05/msg6.html Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comod

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-05-28 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:36:35AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:31:24PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > > While I do think this is a nice solution, I've got a couple of concerns: > > > > > > - is this overk

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-04-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Dominic Hargreaves writes: > From: Dominic Hargreaves > Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:11:29 + > Subject: [PATCH] Describe the Perl upgrade trigger > Signed-off-by: Dominic Hargreaves > --- > perl-policy.sgml | 20 > 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > d

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-04-01 Thread Niko Tyni
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:31:24PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > > While I do think this is a nice solution, I've got a couple of concerns: > > > > - is this overkill? Would it be enough for the long running daemons to just > > re

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-25 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Niko Tyni wrote: > While I do think this is a nice solution, I've got a couple of concerns: > > - is this overkill? Would it be enough for the long running daemons to just > register an interest in a file trigger on /usr/bin/perl ? This means > minor p

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-25 Thread Niko Tyni
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:35:16PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > + > + > +Perl Package Upgrades > + > + Starting from perl 5.12.3-2, a dpkg trigger > + named perl-major-upgrade will be triggered by the > + postinst of the perl package during maj

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-25 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 08:31:51AM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:35:16PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > @@ -461,6 +461,26 @@ perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts > > package must depend upon it explicitly. > > > > > > + > > + > > +

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-25 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Dominic Only read trough yet (but not native english speaker): On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:35:16PM +, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Signed-off-by: Dominic Hargreaves > --- > perl-policy.sgml | 20 > 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/p

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-22 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > A not-so-recent bug report, #230308, raised the issue of how a long-running > program which would be broken (until restart) by a major Perl package upgrade > (eg from 5.10 to 5.12) could be notified of such a restart. There was a rough > consensus on that bug report tha

Bug#619275: Perl Policy change to document major version upgrade trigger

2011-03-22 Thread Dominic Hargreaves
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Dear Policy maintainers, A not-so-recent bug report, #230308, raised the issue of how a long-running program which would be broken (until restart) by a major Perl package upgrade (eg from 5.10 to 5.12) could be notified of such a restart. There was a rough