Cannot install many perl packages anymore in unstable

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

----- Messaggio originale -----
> Da: Dominic Hargreaves <dom at earth.li>
> A: Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>
> Cc: "pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org" <pkg-perl-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>; debian-release at lists.debian.org
> Inviato: Giovedì 29 Agosto 2013 11:27
> Oggetto: Re: Cannot install many perl packages anymore in unstable
> 
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
>>  Hi perl developers, I know the perl transition has started, and I cannot 
> build packages I comaintain anymore.
>> 
>>  I cannot install the following packages anymore on sid
>> 
>> 
>>  libwww-perl
>>  libxml-parser-perl
>>  libxml-libxml-perl
>>  libtext-charwidth-perl
>> 
>>   
>>  Since the transition will take a while, how long should I wait for 
> uploading my packages? Should I build them from testing?
>>  I tried to rebuild them and 3 of them just need a rebuild, I can rebuild 
> and upload on mentors if you want
> 
> At the moment we're in the hands of the release team (CCed), who are
> coordinating the binNMUs which will fix all these. I don't have any ETA for
> this, but maybe they do.
> 
>>  Can I help or just wait for the transition?
> 
> At this stage I suspect there's nothing to help with, although once
> the binNMUs get underway there will be a certain amount of work needed
> to keep on track of any build failures. You can see the current progress
> at 
> 
> http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.18.html

Many thanks, I was wondering about some binNMUs being in progress,
I'm already aware of the transition link, so I'll wait for an answer from debian-release team.

Have a nice day

Gianfranco

> 
> Cheers,
> Dominic.
>