On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 21:13, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 20:14:53 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> 2012/2/6 Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org>: >> > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 14:46:51 +0100, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> > >> >> So I would say we are pretty safe on this front. PHP scripts still could >> >> break in every possible way, but I don't think we would be able to detect >> >> that easily. >> >> >> > Well, there'll need to be *some* way to detect them before release, >> > surely? Maybe that means testing each php package individually, and >> > gathering a list of which packages have received successful testing. >> > The testing could be done by the individual package maintainers, but >> > it'd be nice if somebody was collecting the results so we know what has >> > or hasn't been tested. >> >> Yes, that can be done. But ... do we do that for other languages? >> python? perl? >> > I'm pretty sure something like that was done for python. I don't think > perl breaks source level compatibility to anywhere near the same extent > (could be wrong, though).
Alright. >> Anyway I'll setup a wiki page and when you ack the php5 5.4 upload, I'll mail >> the package maintainers and ask them to test their packages individually. >> > They can test right now with php from experimental... How many of them do you think will do that? I am big pessimist here. Do you think that email about testing with experimental packages now and then second (well third if you count that in d-d-a) email will not be too much? I would rather skip the one with "please test with package in experimental" now and then push people to really test with php5 in unstable. O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
