Hi, Release team! I'd like to upload the new Erlang R15B into unstable (already did it into experimental). This is the new major version with a few incompatibilities, so it requires a transition.
There aren't many packages which reverse-depend on Erlang. The full list is couchdb, ejabberd, esdl, erlang-guestfs (libguestfs source), manderlbot, rabbitmq-server, tsung, uwsgi-plugin-erlang (uwsgi source), wings3d, yaws. Packages which are maintained by "Erlang Debian Packagers" group are already fixed to work with new R15B and uploaded into experimental. The others require some testing: ejabberd (certainly will not work, requires at least patching external drivers and getting rid of 'regexp' module usage). couchdb (could work after rebuild, but likely will require patching external driver, see http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/erl_driver.html for details). erlang-guestfs from libguestfs sources (should just work after rebuild). rabbitmq-server (should not require any changes or rebuild). tsung (uses 'regexp' in its build script) uwsgi-plugin-erlang from uwsgi sources (should work as is) I'd suggest to upload the packages which need fixes to experimental, then Erlang to unstable, then all the packages to unstable. Since Erlang drivers ABI is changed, the new R15B will provide virtual package erlang-abi-15.b instead of current erlang-abi-13.b. This means that neither erlang itself nor the packages which use this ABI and depend on erlang-abi-* will not enter testing automatically and will require manual hinting (which is OK). Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOq2pXFeCYrLeOqVP-Q24FDNbb41GyFnrtu1Sr2+-DUc4HF=u...@mail.gmail.com
