Brendan O'Dea wrote: > For the moment my principal concern was working the bugs (such as the > man page thing above) out of perl, testing the packaging procedure, > embedded interpreters and so on. > > The rationale for providing a developer writable incoming directory was > prinipally to allow maintainers to test their own packages, although in > some instances that also may require an NMU of some dependencies. > > For my own purposes, I've done MUs of my own packages, plus some binary > NMUs on my development arch simply to satisfy dependencies. Although > feel free to do sourceful NMUs if you wish. > > Unless indicated to me otherwise by mail, anything which is dropped into > my incoming and processed into the pool will be copied into ftp-master's > incoming at the end of the testing period (a week or two).
I meant to ask -- when updating XS module packages for 5.8, should they be made to build-dep on that version of perl? That may be necessary once they hit the real archive to ensure that autobuilders build them against the new version of perl. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
