Bug#624870: Removal of dozens of packages due to perl major version upgrade to sid

[Sedat Dilek]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li> wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:02:13PM +0200, Sedat Dilek wrote:
>> I wanted to dist-upgrade this morning and apt wants to remove dozens
>> of other packages.
>> Putting "old" perl (5.10.1-20) on hold fixes the upgrade, so it looks
>> like perl (5.12.3-6) breaks here.
>
> Yes, this is expected whilst the transition (rebuild of ~ 400 packages)
> completes. Please see #619117 for more information and try again in a
> few days.
>
> Dominic.
>
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Hi,

thanks for the pointer to Debian-Bug #619117 [1].
This BR only told me there is a transition [2] - which is done here on
i386 at last weekend.
So, my BR can be closed.

Personally, I was more interested in the technical aspects and maybe
there is/are doc(s) on how to "transfer" packages/scripts from perl
5.10 to 5.12.
Think also of people wanting to fixup 3rd party (or own) perl scripts
or packages.
Does something exist?

[3] says:
4265 packages wait for perl (8 days old, not yet built, too young) [Niko Tyni]

( WOW! Didn't guess Debian is so perl-dependent.)

Talking with other Debian enthusiats opened my eyes to [5] and [6].

- Sedat -

[1]·http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=619117
[2] http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl.html
[3] http://release.debian.org/migration/toplist.html
[4] http://release.debian.org/migration/testing.pl?waiting=perl
[5] http://edos.debian.net/weather/
[6] https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdebase/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/3fda8ec4bb6701f51f43f655a1bf47b8959dd250