[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#458144: perl 5.10 transition, NMUs and release goals

[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:37:11PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
>> http://ftp-master.debian.org/~he/perl-NMUs is a list of packages
>> depending on '(perlapi-5.8|libperl5.8)'. We will need to schedule about
>> ~295 binNMUs for perl5.10, for such small packages such as abiword,
>> postgres-* and most of our mail servers. This will put *massive* load on
>> the build machines.
> repeating notes from along the way to make sure you're aware of these
> issues. They are collected at <http://wiki.debian.org/Perl5.10Transition>.

Thanks, but I already use the wiki page as starting point (noone can
expect me to actually remember the BTS URIs for the usertagged reports,
right?)

The problem right now is that the situation wrt testing migration isn't
too rosy anyway at the moment, seeing how we are blocked by ghc6,
openexr/kdelibs, suitespare/openoffice.org (which is now in turn stuck
ehin kdelibs) and some other transitions. The moment perl5.10 has been
uploaded to unstable, we will need to basically freeze unstable for a
few days to get it through to testing without entangling it with other
transitions.

Brendan, have you already planned a perl upload to unstable?

> - it would be great if the build dependency loop with libxml-parser-perl 
>   (#458144, Cc'd) could be fixed first. I think it's by far the most 
>   significant problem for the binNMUs.

Yes. Ardo, could you update libxml-parser-perl with the workaround
proposed in <47C22AC9.1050300 at ardolabs.com>?

Marc
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