Bug#592506: [v-admins] Bug#592506: What to do about libtest-harness-perl?

[Nicholas Bamber]

Adam,
    What do we need to do to push on with this? Do I need to raise a 
formal request to have 3.20 removed from testing?


Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 18:53 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
>   
>> Ideas so far:
>> 1) reupload 3.17 (with an epoch or something)
>> 2) create a 3.20 + patch version (risky and ugly)
>> 3) upload 3.22 (huge diff)
>>
>> Another simpler way that came to my mind might be:
>> * Remove libtest-harness-perl 3.20-1 from testing; perl core has
>>   Test::Harness 3.17 in 5.10.1 anyway. Should solve the problem in
>>   testing, and has the same effect in the end as Nicholas' proposal.
>> * And upload 3.22 to unstable to close the bug in unstable.
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>     
>
> If the preference is to ship 3.17 then duplicating the core version as a
> separate package doesn't seem like a great idea.  So far as I can see,
> the only package which has a versioned dependency on
> libtest-harness-perl is libtest-most-perl, and that prefers perl 5.10.1
> anyway.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>   

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