the merge of 'perl-modules' to 'perl' is planned

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:13:20 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:

> The binary package 'perl-modules' is planned to be merged into 'perl' binary
> package in the near future, firstly leaving 'perl-modules' as an empty package
> (dependent on 'perl') to not make the mass breakage in a shot. 

Oh, that's big news.
(And good news, should make a few things easier.)

> However, it
> would be good to remove the 'perl-modules' entirely before Squeeze, or at
> least leave as minimum as possible perl modules (build)-depending on
> 'perl-modules'. Considering the big number of Perl modules are maintained
> under pkg-perl umbrella or by members of pkg-perl party I am ask to substitute
> depends and build-depends on 'perl-modules' to 'perl' for all future uploads.

Sure, that shouldn't be a problem. And it's also easy the do a nice
mass-change in our svn repo for all packages.
I'm just not sure if it's doable and needed to upload all 1400+
packages before Squeeze. But we can try, with 5 months à 30 days
before the freeze in March that's just 10 packages per day :)
 
So, let's start to coordinate this action!


Cheers,
gregor, who was already starting to wonder if this would be a release
        without any transition
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