Bug#666844: advice on backporting libembperl-perl

[Florian Schlichting]

Hi,

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 06:39:01PM +0200, Arno Töll wrote:
> If you feel the need, you can downgrade this bug's severity, and "cheat"
> libembperl-perl into Testing before we're going to actually break Sid. I
> do not expect an Apache 2.4 stack in Testing anytime soon so that will
> give you some time.

ok thanks, I'll go ahead in that direction then

> Having that said, keep in mind, that your package may migrate at some
> point in a 2.4 enabled version to Testing, which is highly unlikely to
> be considered backport material. Thus, a backport of the "last version
> before you upload a 2.4 version" would be an isolated backport, which
> diverges from the actual package in Testing at some point.

I'm primarily concerned with the upgrade path from squeeze. Embperl is
in maintenance mode and has had a hard time keeping up with new versions
of Perl and mod_perl in the past, so not too much in the way of new
upstream versions / features that would be missed. Providing any - even
an isolated - version that works on wheezy is an improvement on the
current state.

Florian