Bug#625227: [dom at earth.li: Re: Bug#625227: Bug#625218: libdigest-sha1-perl: Uninstallable: perl-base no longer provides perlapi-5.10.1]

[Dominic Hargreaves]

For the record.

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Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 18:25:15 +0100
From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>
To: Amaya <amaya at debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#625227: Bug#625218: libdigest-sha1-perl: Uninstallable:
	perl-base no longer provides perlapi-5.10.1
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 07:18:23PM +0200, Amaya wrote:
> Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > Okay. But I'm having real problems reconciling this paragraph with
> > the next one, where you propose continuing to waste time.
> 
> You are absolutely right.
> 
> > No, they don't "need" to filed. Doing so is going to have absolutely
> > no effect on the transition except to annoy the various maintainers
> > involved by creating completely unnecessary work for them. 
> 
> You are absolutely right. I missed the transition, filed several bugs I
> should not have and apologized. I will proceed to close the bugs ASAP.

I do wonder whether either I (perl uploader) or release team should
have announced this in advance. I looked to the 5.10 transition and
didn't find anything specific... however, I'll probably learn from this
and announce the transition next time round.
 
> > In case it's not clear: in general the maintainers of these packages
> > will not need to do anything to resolve the dependencies; they will be
> > fixed by binNMUs coordinated by the release team; there are roughly
> > 400 of these packages.
> 
> I apologize again. Not my best day today.

Okay, no problem -- we all have them. And apologies for not
communicating the transition in advance which I guess would have saved
the confusion.

Best wishes,
Dominic.

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