On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 03:32:15PM -0500, John MacPhail wrote: >From the October archives of this list, it seems you (implicitly) >orphaned Perl, and then Brendan O'Dea gave notice of his intention to >adopt it. Yet there are two competing sets of packages: > > http://incoming.debian.org -- by Darren Stalder; > http://master.debian.org/~bod -- by Branden O'Dea. > >Perhaps this situation contains subtleties that I am missing. But do >you disagree with the adoption?
The situation is fairly simple. Darren (for reasons he has since explained) went AWOL for some time. During that period, I proposed that we should drop the version from the package names and built some packages to support that proposal (the second URL above). As time went by, I continued to update those packages since myself and others were using them. At about this time, Darren re-surfaced, indicated his wish to retain the packages and made what I believed to be a commitment to get packages in by a certain date. As that date passed with no sign of packages or even a message to -perl, I assumed (incorrectly it would seem) that Darren had again disappeared from sight, and after a couple of days I posted an ITA. That ITA was indirectly responded to by Darren who uploaded his packages to incoming. The current situation is that a set of perl-5.6 packages are currently in woody, maintained by Darren who has promised to upload new versions of 5.004, 5.005 and 5.6 shortly which remove the mess of alternatives. I still maintain that versioned perl packages as currently installed are flawed WRT our dependency system. Regards, -- Brendan O'Dea [email protected] Compusol Pty. Limited (NSW, Australia) +61 2 9810 3633
