Transitions in progress

[Allison Randal]

On 05/18/2011 02:34 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> I've been doing, er, rather a lot of rebuild uploads to Oneiric
> recently, and I thought maybe it might be a good idea to explain what's
> going on.  (There's a novel approach for you.)
> 
> We currently have four major transitions in progress, that I'm aware of:
> 
>   * Perl 5.12
>     http://orangesquash.org.uk/~laney/transitions/perl.html
> 
>     You've almost certainly noticed this if you've attempted an upgrade
>     to Oneiric.  This is mostly done now, and is down to a few handfuls
>     of build failures of various levels of oddness.  I've mostly run out
>     of steam on diagnosing this lot, so if anyone would like to attack
>     some of the failures so that we can get rid of the last 5.10
>     dependencies, please do.
> 
>     In order to actually remove libperl5.10, we'll also need to fix
>     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581950.

I'll help here. Have you been using a standard tag (like Debian's
'perl-5.12-transition') for related bugs?

Allison