Hi Alastair, On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:30:58PM +0000, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > >* Steve Langasek > > > >| If you are planning any other transitions that will affect a lot of > >| packages, please let us know in advance. We will need to complete the > >| larger transitions as fast as possible, to get testing back into a > >| nearly releasable state quickly again after the release.
> Whats a large transition? I'm working on slang1->slang2 in a private > repository; > around 20 or so packages depending on it. > Currently slang2 is in pre-release; I'm working with upstream to merge Debian > patches into it, and building all slang1 > dependencies against it. > Expect patches in BTS two weeks after sarge releases. slang should, I hope, be a fairly small change; OTOH, we seem to still have conflicting slang1 and slang1a-utf8 packages in the archive (conflicting -dev packages at least), so it would certainly be nice to wrap this up and only have to carry one version of this core library for etch. > Also, I am planning on obsoleting console-tools and console-data and > transitioning to kbd; again, small but base change; see code ASAP to test > for breakages. Any chance of getting to see this in experimental first? Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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