Re: [Attn Maintainer] subversion net-snmp

2015-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
David Rothenberger writes: New versions of subversion and net-snmp built against 5.22 are uploaded. I've created subversion/!perl and net-snmp/!perl. Thanks. [I don't know how difficult that is to do quickly, but maybe consider renaming these packages perl-net-snmp and perl-subversion.] I

Re: [Attn Maintainer] stow

2015-07-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/31/2015 2:44 PM, Ken Brown wrote: On 7/31/2015 2:01 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Andrew Schulman writes: I have a filter set up to flag messages with HEADSUP in the subject line as important. So I always read those. Other maintainers are probably filtering on HEADSUP in a similar way. I

Re: [Attn Maintainer] stow

2015-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: I have a filter set up to flag messages with HEADSUP in the subject line as important. So I always read those. Other maintainers are probably filtering on HEADSUP in a similar way. I wasn't aware that this was an agreed-upon keyword and I can't find where it is

Re: [Attn Maintainer] stow

2015-07-31 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/31/2015 2:01 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Andrew Schulman writes: I have a filter set up to flag messages with HEADSUP in the subject line as important. So I always read those. Other maintainers are probably filtering on HEADSUP in a similar way. I wasn't aware that this was an agreed-upon

perl vendorlib, sitelib (was: stow)

2015-07-31 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 18:13 -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: Leave aside that it seems brain-dead that I should have to rebuild my package for such a triviality. Wouldn't it be nice if I could put the files into, say, /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl, and not have to rebuild my package every time

[HEADSUP] Perl update to 5.22.0

2015-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
I hope I gathered all responses correctly, please comment if I've got anything wrong. Jari and Volker are out on vacation or other business. Yaakov commented we shouldn't hold the release for ming and I've just looked up Jari's packages and they don't contain XS modules, so if anybody needs

Re: [HEADSUP] Perl update to 5.22.0

2015-07-31 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Fri, 2015-07-31 at 21:13 +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: Jari and Volker are out on vacation or other business. Yaakov commented we shouldn't hold the release for ming and I've just looked up Jari's packages and they don't contain XS modules, so if anybody needs those before Jari updates them we

Re: perl vendorlib, sitelib

2015-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: This is a good point; pure Perl modules should not need to be rebuilt for every new Perl version. As I've explained before, the impetus to rebuild even those is coming from the large jump we're making with Perl for just this update, which rolls up several user-visible

Re: [Attn Maintainer] amanda

2015-07-31 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 09:05 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote: for what I see Mark never updated the package after first release in Sept 2012 and never provided a 64 bit version. No, he did not. The package is currently amanda-3.3.2-8 while upstream is at 3.3.7p1. I built during weekend the

Re: [Attn Maintainer] stow

2015-07-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
None of this discussion should detract from the amazing job you've done in pulling this Perl update together. I hope you get several gold stars and/or plush hippos for all your work. Awarded! http://cygwin.com/goldstars/#AG

Re: [HEADSUP] Perl update to 5.22.0

2015-07-31 Thread Achim Gratz
With the invaluable help of Yaakov and John on the server side, the mass update of all things Perl is now complete. I would like to thank all maintainers for helping with re-releases of their packages. I don't know if that's my call to make, but I'd like to ask for a round of gold stars for:

Re: [Attn Maintainer] stow

2015-07-31 Thread Andrew Schulman
Andrew Schulman writes: OK. I missed that thread. For the next time there's a Perl update that requires action from us maintainers, it would help if you put a HEADSUP in the subject line. I've realized just in time that some maintainers don't read all of the cygwin-apps list or even

Re: [HEADSUP] Perl update to 5.22.0

2015-07-31 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:42:53PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: With the invaluable help of Yaakov and John on the server side, the mass update of all things Perl is now complete. I would like to thank all maintainers for helping with re-releases of their packages. I don't know if that's my