Re: perl plans for the lenny cycle

2007-04-17 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:14:18PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >We would like to know which major upstream versions of perl are >expected to be released in the next 24 months and how much time you >expect them to need to get stable enough for a Debian stable release. The current Perl rele

Re: libapt-pkg-perl needs an binNMU for new apt 0.7

2007-06-15 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:14:41PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >At debconf while experimenting with fai, I noticd that libapt-pkg-perl >is uninstallable in lenny/unstable. It was a simple no change rebuild >necessary to get it running. A binNMU seems fine to me. I'm planning to upload a new ver

Re: Bug#220486: Acknowledgement (perl-suid: suidperl security)

2004-02-17 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:31:26PM +1100, Paul Szabo wrote: >>> Who/what is "upstream": perl5-porters, or the Debian maintainer? I still >>> hope to get somewhere with perl5-porters; the patches I submitted to >>> #203426 and #220486 are "proper" (so maybe permanent). >> >> I'm not familiar with p

Re: Upgrade report: woody->sarge

2004-08-09 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 03:52:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >(Redirecting to correct lists.) > >Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> 849 packages upgraded, 237 newly installed, 26 to remove and 4 not upgraded. >> 39 packages not fully installed or removed. >> Need to get 0B/626MB of archives. After unpacking 43

Re: Bug#278417: libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 pre-installation script fails

2004-11-04 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:42:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > libxt6 uses debconf in its preinst script. Debconf in turn uses the Perl > module Text::Iconv (to perform character set conversion for the > presentation of appropriately localized template choices and > descriptions, perhaps

Re: Perl related upgrade problems woody -> sarge

2004-12-01 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Sat, Nov 20, 2004 at 03:11:34AM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: >This mail should give an overview for a problem with woody->sarge upgrades >reported multiple times. >On woody->sarge upgrades, sometimes maintainer scripts fail with the >following error: >Can't locate File/Basename.pm in @INC (@

Re: Accepted perl 5.8.4-8sarge4 (source sparc all)

2006-03-24 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:21:47PM +0100, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> Changes: >> perl (5.8.4-8sarge4) stable; urgency=low >> . >>* Don't generate broken md5sums for libperl5.8 (closes: #354466). >>* Preserve timestamps in /usr/share/doc. >>* Fix problem with utf8/taint interaction

Re: Strange things in perl version in unstable

2006-12-17 Thread Brendan O7;Dea
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:50:55AM +0100, Luk Claes wrote: >On request of Marc, I started reviewing perl for testing migration, but I >found a strange thing. Brendan, can you please comment: > >Why is $stuff used before it's declared in the below part of diff? Oops, typo. It's a harmless no-op, w