Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Hello Release team, >> >> Perl maintainers are to merge the package 'perl-modules' to 'perl'. >> Currently these packages depend on each other. >> >> The transition plan: >> >> 1) move the contents of 'perl-modules' to 'perl', leaving 'perl-modules' >> as an empty package that depends on 'perl' >> >> this should not break anything in the archive, and we are going to >> prepare experimental packages first and then upload them to sid soon, >> are you OK with this?
Ok. >> 2) remove the package 'perl-modules' before Squeeze entirely >> >> this transition part needs sourceful uploads, but is remarkably easy in >> sense all people that used 'perl-modules' already have 'perl' installed, >> so there is no need to keep transition package next release, plus >> requires no intrusive changes in affected packages, just updating >> control files >> >> 2.1) file the bugs on affected packages to depend and build-depend on >> 'perl' and not on 'perl-modules' with severity normal, ~130 packages Ok, though I think severity important is more appropriate at this stage. >> 2.2) wait two-three months, remove 'perl-modules' from sid, bump >> severity of non-fixed bugs to serious Ok, though it would be good to have upgrade tests from both Lenny as well as Sid at that moment. >> 2.3) wait a week, prepare NMUs to all packages with still non-fixed bugs Preparing patches can already be done earlier of course. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
