On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 00:19:39 +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:

> Unfortunately, many packages not maintained by the team still follow the
> now obsolete policy used for Squeeze. It is vital that the transition
> finishes before the release of Wheezy, in order to ensure coherence in
> the installation and use of the Ruby libraries and applications in the
> stable release. In order to talk the maintainers of these packages into
> converting them to the new policy, we want to send an email to
> debian-devel-announce@l.d.o with the content below.

What does that mean?  What breaks if not all packages are converted?

> However, in case the transition is not completely finished for the
> freeze, could you suggest ways in which the team can act? Is it
> conceivable to add the end of the Ruby transition as a release goal?
> Would it be OK to consider Ruby packages that have not transitioned as
> NMU-able in order to make them comply to the new policy? On the other
> hand, transitioning a packaging is quite invasive (e.g. most of the time it
> includes renaming both source and binary packages), so perhaps you may
> have other suggestions.
> 
I can't imagine why renaming source packages would be required.  Are
bugs filed for these changes?  With patches?

Cheers,
Julien

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