Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2020-06-09 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Axel Beckert (2020-06-07): > Since Guillem cleared up this and even provided a patch for aptitude > (which is applied and in testing for a week or two), I changed my > opinion on this topic completely. > >> If another team member +1's the package removal, I'll happily proceed. > > Seconded.

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2020-06-07 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, intrigeri wrote: > I did not dare proposing this course of action so far because the > notes from our BoF at DebConf19 are a bit ambiguous about whether we > decided to remove the package from sid, in addition to removing it > from testing. I wasn't at the BoF, but was opposing rather

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2020-06-07 Thread intrigeri
Hi, gregor herrmann (2020-05-22): > On Fri, 22 May 2020 09:58:12 +0200, intrigeri wrote: > >> So, once aptitude >= 0.8.13-1 has migrated to testing, we'll need to >> ask (presumably the release team) for libparse-debianchangelog-perl to >> lose its "key package" status, so the autoremoval

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2020-05-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 22 May 2020 09:58:12 +0200, intrigeri wrote: > So, once aptitude >= 0.8.13-1 has migrated to testing, we'll need to > ask (presumably the release team) for libparse-debianchangelog-perl to > lose its "key package" status, so the autoremoval machinery can remove > it from testing due to

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2020-05-22 Thread intrigeri
Hi, intrig...@debian.org (2019-07-26): > Therefore, at the pkg-perl BoF today at DebConf, after pondering other > options such as orphaning this package, we decided that we don't want > this package to be included in Bullseye (at least, maintained under > the Perl team umbrella) unless someone

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-11-07 Thread intrigeri
Hi!, Guillem Jover: > Ah! Thanks for the info. How about the following clarification then? :) Perfect! That's exactly what I would have needed :) Cheers, -- intrigeri

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-11-05 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2019-11-02 at 16:31:24 +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Guillem Jover: > > On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 12:20:00 -0300, intrigeri wrote: > >> Oh, this is very interesting, thanks! I had taken a look at that > >> module, but from the documentation I understood it only gives us "the > >> number of

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-11-02 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Guillem Jover: > On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 12:20:00 -0300, intrigeri wrote: >> gregor herrmann: >> > In dpt-new-upstream we're using Dpkg::Changelog::Debian from >> > libdpkg-perl, which might help here as well. >> Oh, this is very interesting, thanks! I had taken a look at that >> module, but

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-08-07 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2019-07-27 at 12:20:00 -0300, intrigeri wrote: > gregor herrmann: > > In dpt-new-upstream we're using Dpkg::Changelog::Debian from > > libdpkg-perl, which might help here as well. > Oh, this is very interesting, thanks! I had taken a look at that > module, but from the documentation

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-07-27 Thread intrigeri
Hi again, intrigeri: > I'm very glad I was mislead. It looks like Dpkg::Changelog{,::*} are > sufficient for many, if not most, use cases of Parse::DebianChangelog :) Hoping it will help other affected folks go through this transition, here are MRs that give examples about how some code can be

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-07-27 Thread intrigeri
gregor herrmann: > In dpt-new-upstream we're using Dpkg::Changelog::Debian from > libdpkg-perl, which might help here as well. Oh, this is very interesting, thanks! I had taken a look at that module, but from the documentation I understood it only gives us "the number of changelog entries that

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-07-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 18:28:38 -0300, intrigeri wrote: > dh-make-perl uses this module for three things: > > - t/debian-version.t: extracting the latest version of >a changelog file > > - copyright_from_changelog: > > - extract maintainer and date for each changelog entry > > -

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-07-26 Thread intrigeri
intrigeri: > https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=libparse-debian-changelog-removal=debian-perl%40lists.debian.org Scratch that (typo), it is actually: https://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/bts-usertags.cgi?tag=libparse-debian-changelog-perl-removal=debian-perl%40lists.debian.org

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-07-26 Thread intrigeri
> - Users of Parse::DebianChangelog could list their minimal >requirements for a new implementation. If more folks want to play this game, we should probably move this to a wiki page, but for the sake of getting things moving simply, here we go: dh-make-perl uses this module for three

Bug#933128: libparse-debianchangelog-perl: Unsuitable for Bullseye unless someone becomes upstream

2019-07-26 Thread intrigeri
Package: libparse-debianchangelog-perl Version: 1.2.0-13 Severity: serious Hi, many years ago, the Debian Perl group has unwillingly inherited the role of de facto upstream maintainer for this package: all changes done since 2011 were applied as Debian patches. We don't feel we're in a good