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Debian Perl (pkg-perl) Sprint

Location, Date

• when: May 22nd-24th 2015

• where: Computer Architecture Department at UPC BarcelonaTech: Campus Nord UPC C6 Building Jordi Girona 1-3 08034 Barcelona

Participants

Call for Participants

Accommodation

There are two residence halls linked to the venue:

• Pere Felip Monlau near the city centre, at 32€ per night.

• Torre Girona near the venue, at 45€ per night.

But there are many other options that could work for 6 people and ~50€ per night: apartments, hostels, etc.

An apartment for 6 has been reserved for 4 nights from Thursday. Details of picking up the keys tbc with alexm and those arriving on Thursday

Agenda

Based on pkg-perl tasks.

General goals

• Kick off the stretch development for pkg-perl.
• QA work across our 3000+ packages.

Topics

(Or better: potential topics or topics to pick from, and work can continue at (the sprint at) DebCamp.)

• Patches and git: explore, discuss, maybe decide on other ways than quilt (e.g. git-debcherry).
• Preparation for Perl 5.22.
• Decide about packages with RC bugs / file RM bugs.
• Dual-lived modules: update alternative dependencies, explicitly depend on modules which are deprecated or removed from perl core, discuss/implement versioned provides.
• Unify our debian/watch files, esp. all the variants how uversionmangle is used.
• Switch repackaging framework from repack.{stub,local,sh} to uscan's Files-Excluded.
• Change remaining /usr/lib/perl5 occurences (lintian-overrides, doc-base files, ...).
• Check all libapp-*-perl (and potentially other) packages for real applications whose (binary) packages should rather be named foo instead of libapp-foo-perl.
• Add/check autopkgtests to all packages.
• Fix reproducible build issues.
• dh-make-perl bug fixing.

Items

• discuss possible src:perl binary package reorganization (DONE)
• ci.debian.net

  • whitelist update http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/debian-ci-config.git/tree/perl.txt

    • clean up packages that already have a Testsuite header (DONE)

    • check pkg-perl packages not on the whitelist (DONE)
      • 671 packages tested, 62 new passing packages added to the whitelist

      • list of work needing packages is available, see http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/autopkgtest.html#ci_debian_net

  • PET integration? -> "patches welcome", filed 786664

  • IRC and/or email notifications about regressions?

    • base on http://ci.debian.net/data/status/unstable/amd64/packages.json

• patch handling / debcherry

  • see 784159

  • plan: just have a demo (ntyni) and some discussion (DONE)

• dpkg-gencontrol: warning: File::Lock not available; using flock which is not NFS-safe

  • see 677865

  • ntyni has a plan, it just needs implementation
• Andrew Beverley's dh-make-perl patches

  • see 774068, 774070, 774071, 774072, 774073, 774074

  • 774068: perllocal.pod handling: change debhelper first, may need a policy change too?

  • 774073: generate diversions handling code automatically - commented

  • 774072: looks sane, but needs confirmation and testing - patch applied

  • 774070: looks sane, but needs confirmation and testing - patch applied

  • 774071: patch may need a bit of attention but basically OK - patch applied

• other dh-make-perl work

  • https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/dh-make-perl.git/log/

• reproducible builds

  • what to do with POD_MAN_DATE ? (probably implement it in debhelper) see 782879

  • upstreaming patches for perl itself (to wait until after 5.22 release?)
• perl 5.22 preparations
  • upload RC1 to experimental (with binary package reorganization)

  • Module::Build and CGI.pm core removals

  • we need a plan for Test::Tester / Test::use::ok

    • perl should Break and Replace older (or all?) versions of libtest-tester-perl and libtest-use-ok-perl

    • but probably not Provide they aren't separate on CPAN anymore (?)

    • for separate packages: https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2015/04/msg00022.html f.

• versioned provides: needs dose3 support for wanna-build? see https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/04/msg00246.html

  • plan for sprint: try them out a bit with sbuild et al.

  • 786671 filed against dose3

• Shortly discuss moving of lintian checks from pkg-perl-tools to lintian proper (if necessary) → Nothing needed to discuss, XTaran has a "go".
• packages with RC bugs / file RM bugs (DONE, for the hopeless 2013/5.18 generation)

Budget

This is the estimate budget for the sprint.

Travel and accomodation

• 5 people need accommodation for 3..4 nights at 32..50€ per night (480..1000€)
• Plus travel expenses for 5 people and food expenses for 1 instead (rough estimate 1715€).

• TOTAL = 2195..2715€

Food

Please, note that usually, participants are expected to cover food costs by themselves, although exceptions might be considered (see ../../HowTo)

• 100€ for food per person:
  • 2 dinners at 25€ each,
  • 2 lunches at 15€ each, and
  • 4 coffee breaks at 5€ each.

Reports

(pointers to communication about the sprint)

• Announcement: https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2015/02/msg00049.html

• DPL ack: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sprints/2015/03/msg00001.html

• Report:

  • markdown

  • HTML

  • debian-perl archive

  • debian-project archive

• Draft for bits.debian.org: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/perl-team.pages.debian.net/blob/master/docs/sprint-bcn2015/bits-bcn2015.md

  • debian-publicity archive

Acknowledgements

The sprint has been possible thanks to:

• Donations to the Debian project: travel/accomodation sponsorship

• Computer Architecture Department at UPC BarcelonaTech: venue sponsor

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