[arch-dev-public] ISO 2008.03-2 release status update

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/3/14, Eric Belanger <belanger at astro.umontreal.ca>:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Roman Kyrylych wrote:
>
>  > 2008/3/14, K. Piche <kpiche at rogers.com>:
>  >>
>  >>  On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 18:50 +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
>  >> > Hey guys keep cool,
>  >> > following packages i would like to see in core:
>  >> >
>  >> > pending signoffs and move to base:
>  >> > pmciautils?
>  >> > just a small udev.rules fix waiting for signoff.
>  >> >
>  >> > initscripts?
>  >> > bump to 2008.03 with the last changes from git
>  >> > aaron and roman will add the final changes and then release a new version.
>  >> >
>  >> > pending signoffs and move to support:
>  >> > wpasupplicant?
>  >> > waiting for signoff
>  >> >
>  >> > fuse?
>  >> > Thomas is there an issue atm?
>  >> > waiting for signoff
>  >> >
>  >> > kbd?
>  >> > Roman wanted to add some changes and additions to it,
>  >> > this is not critical we could live with the old version too.
>  >> > Roman until the other things are fixed/done you have time to get kbd working.
>  >> >
>  >> > madwifi/madwifi-utils?
>  >> > switched back to trunk version, waiting for new responses, signoff
>  >> >
>  >> > delayed package moves due to rebuilds and issues:
>  >> > gcc
>  >> > build-toolchain
>  >> > libtool
>  >> > perl
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> I consider the latest perl 5.10.0-3 pretty much complete.  Except for
>  >>  zim and mod_perl there are no other complaints with the other official
>  >>  packages.  I don't know the status of the community packages.
>  >
>  > Could you please notify Firmicus about the need of rebuilds so he
>  > could package updated versions locally and then upload them to
>  > community soon after you move perl out of testing.
>  > This will help to avoid breakage of community perl packages
>  >
>  >
>
>
> I was about to suggest the same thing. A quick search for 'perl' on the
>  AUR interface gave me over 200 results.  As most of them are perl modules
>  that will definitely needs to be rebuilt, we can expect that over 200
>  community package will need to be rebuilt. That is certainly a lot. IMO,
>  it would be a good idea to keep perl in testing until community packages
>  are locally ready.

Firmicus already did local rebuilds, sergej was notified today.

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)