On 2013-05-20 01:54, Russ Allbery wrote: > Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]> writes: > >> perl 5.18.0 was released today, and we're already well on the way to >> having it ready for upload to sid. However, it might be a month or more >> before it's ready from our end. Would you prefer to have a transition >> bug opened now, before our schedule become clear, or later on?
Hi, I suspect anytime you have an idea of the scope of the transition and what packages will be affected would be a good time to file the bug. > > Be aware that Perl 5.18.0 includes podlators 2.5.1, which means that > pod2man now exits with an error by default if there are POD syntax errors. > I believe this means that some fairly large percentage of the packages > with the manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man will FTBFS once this becomes the > default version of Perl. > > http://lintian.debian.org/tags/manpage-has-errors-from-pod2man.html > Looks like at least 50 packages that will start to FTBFS if I am reading that graph right. Personally, I would appreciate that these packages were fixed before we started the transition to avoid making the transition longer than it has to be. ~Niels -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
