On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 15:15 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 29/07/10 12:17, K. Piche wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 13:58 -0400, K. Piche wrote: > >> On Fri, 2010-07-23 at 09:18 +0200, Firmicus wrote: > >>> On 23/07/2010 03:16, Allan McRae wrote: > >>>> What is going on with the perl-5.12 update in [testing]? Every few days > >>>> I see rebuilds > >>>> for a couple of packages with "perl-5.12 rebuild" as the reason yet we > >>>> have no rebuild > >>>> list. How much more needs done? Is there any schedule for this making it > >>>> to the main repos? > >>>> > >>>> Allan > >>>> > >>> I have asked the same question to Kevin a few days ago, saying I could > >>> help him if needed. > >>> He replied on Tuesday, saying he was going to push it out on Wednesday. I > >>> replied that he > >>> needs to rebuild perl because I fixed the provides array in trunk since > >>> his last build > >>> (which was in May I think), and that he also needs to re-consider this: > >>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13808 > >>> > >>> Have not heard back from him, but hopefully all this perl stuff will get > >>> out of testing soon. > >>> > >>> F > >> > >> I rebuilt perl with the updated provides array. I want to get this out > >> of testing so I'll deal with the stupid/annoying FHS bug later. > >> > >> If there's no objections I'll migrate perl tomorrow. > >> > >> k > > > > Speaking of which, I recall emails about removing the testing2* but they > > still exist so this is still the official method? > > testing2x is the way to go. If you have switched some packages to > arch=any you may need some intervention (but I am really not sure...) > > > Also, I'd like to ditch the gift* packages - how is something moved to > > AUR? I didn't see anything on the devwiki. > > Why? The normal procedure is to post saying you are removing them and > why and perhaps give someone else (including TUs) the chance to adopt them. > > In essence, you remove the package and manually upload to the AUR > (remember to orphan it there).
In retrospect that should have been obvious. :) I figured there was some script. > Allan Thanks, k -- K. Piche <[email protected]>
