Bug#1146517: libipc-shareable-perl is marked for autoremoval from testing

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:57:34 +0200, Edmund Lodewijks wrote:

>>And since the issues and patches are spread across 2 bug reports, 2 
>>upstream issues, 1 MR on salsa, and now this thread on the 
>>maintainer mailing list (usually we use debian-perl at lists.debian.org 
>>for discussions, and pkg-perl-maintainers at alioth-lists.debian.net 
>>only for package names and BTS traffic and other automated mails, 
>>and the BTS for discussions about bugs, so CC'd now), people might 
>>lack the overview,
>Oh my, I am making a complete mess of things, am I not? I am sorry, 
>Gregor! I didn't want to email you directly, thinking it would be 
>unfair to just heap my newbie questions all on you..

No worries, finding the best forum for communication is not always 
easy, and in this case there were just quite a few places :)

>>My personal thoughts so far are (and others might disagree):
>> ...
>>So my preliminary proposal is to work from MR!1 on salsa, trim it 
>>down to just the necessary changes for #1146517 (ppc64el and ppc64), 
>>i.e. drop the third patch for #1142815 (47-seg_size.t) and revert 
>>the surrounding changes in debian/, _and_ then have someone with a 
>>better understanding then me about architectures in Perl review 
>>those changes.
>Do you want me to trim that MR on Salsa down according to what you 
>wrote, and then we hope that someone will have a look at it? Let me 
>know, and I'll jump on it.

That's _my_ current idea, but maybe give others a day or three to 
come up with their ideas.


Cheers,
gregor

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