Bug#666844: advice on backporting libembperl-perl

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi Arno,

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 05:33:47PM +0200 on debian-backports, Micha 
Lenk wrote:
> Couldn't you also explain your situation in #666844, and (with consent
> of Arno and who else might have a say) lower the severity of #666844
> until libembperl-perl hits testing, and then raise its severity back to RC?

so here we go:

libembperl-perl was removed from wheezy in 2011 because it failed to
build with current versions of Perl and mod_perl for a long time. This
was eventually fixed upstream late last year, but of course couldn't be
included in the wheezy release any more. I promised to provide a
backport once wheezy is released.

However, before the first dinstall after the wheezy release, you
upgraded #666844 (sourceful transition towards Apache 2.4) to RC, and
thus libembperl-perl won't migrate to testing.

In order to provide users of libembperl-perl in squeeze with an upgrade
path to wheezy, and considering that the Apache 2.4 transition is not
going to affect wheezy, would it be acceptable from the point of view of
the Apache maintainers planning the 2.4 transition to lower the severity
of #666844 for a day or so until libembperl-perl has entered testing?

Florian