On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Zefram wrote:
We should ask for the libdatetime-timezone-perl package to routinely go the volatile route, the same way the tzdata package does. I believe this request should go to the maintainer of the Debian package, the Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>. Dave, I suppose as the DT-TZ maintainer you should make the request.
I am a Debian developer and a member of the pkg-perl group and while I am not personally involved in these packages I do know a little about them.
New versions of the DateTime packages get uploaded to the unstable distribution pretty quickly I'd say within week on average. If there are no major bugs, the package then proceeds to the testing distribution after 10 days.
There is another the alternative package source, the 'backports' archive' which has become official as of the recently released 6.0 version of Debian. This archive consists of packages from testing backported to the stable distribution. This is probably a more appropriate location than volatile though I suppose there is some overlap in their charters.
Backports of the DateTime packages are not made automatically but they do get made pretty regularly afaics.
-- Jaldhar H. Vyas <jald...@braincells.com>
