Le Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:43:43AM -0400, Fred Reimer écrivait: > integration of Perl into Debian. I did not know that every time there > was a new Perl upgrade someone new needed to be found and designated the > point person for coordinating the upgrade in Debian.
:) I'd gladly do the job if I had some time for it, but actually I haven't. So someone else need to take this responsibility... > My comments were not meant to flaunt my cable connection. They were to > make the statement that much faster sites are available that would be > glad to host the files. Of course... I guess that Darren Stalder could make the packages available on master or auric but since Darren has his own site, it really doesn't matter ... > to understand the desire to see Perl at a somewhat recent level in the > unstable tree? Everyone knows that it's probably going to be quite a I undertstand you. I was like you last year when I wanted to have perl-5.005 and nothing happened. Until I decided to do the necessary jobs of testing the package, of embarassing Darren with my remark « Have you done it ? When will you do it ? If you don't do it right now, i'll do it for you » ... and so on. > 5.6 which was released on 3/23/2000. So what's the problem? Yes, I > admit. I'm whining and complaining without doing the job myself because Hehe :) > Hopefully I've made myself clear about what I'm after here. I thought > that Perl 5.6 was just about ready to be put in unstable if I just > waited another week or two. Now I'm hearing that that would be a > "nightmare." All I want is a timeframe on when it's going to be done. As soon as someone is volunteering for the task of managing the upgrade... Any volunteer here ? I don't want to take this responsibility but I'll help anyway when it comes at doing NMUs and so on. I can explain the job in more details if needed ... > Are we looking at next month? In the Fall (which I suppose is Spring > for those down under)? Anytime this year? Hopefully. For perl-5.005 it was more than a year after the official release IIRC. :-( Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -+- http://strasbourg.linuxfr.org/~raphael/
