Cannot install many perl packages anymore in unstable

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:49:38AM +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hi perl developers, I know the perl transition has started, and I cannot build packages I comaintain anymore.
> 
> I cannot install the following packages anymore on sid
> 
> 
> libwww-perl
> libxml-parser-perl
> libxml-libxml-perl
> libtext-charwidth-perl
> 
>  
> Since the transition will take a while, how long should I wait for uploading my packages? Should I build them from testing?
> I tried to rebuild them and 3 of them just need a rebuild, I can rebuild and upload on mentors if you want

At the moment we're in the hands of the release team (CCed), who are
coordinating the binNMUs which will fix all these. I don't have any ETA for
this, but maybe they do.

> Can I help or just wait for the transition?

At this stage I suspect there's nothing to help with, although once
the binNMUs get underway there will be a certain amount of work needed
to keep on track of any build failures. You can see the current progress
at 

http://release.debian.org/transitions/html/perl5.18.html

Cheers,
Dominic.