Debian Perl Group - Open tasks

This page collects ideas for tasks within the Teams/DebianPerlGroup. These tasks can be worked on at DebCamp or might be tackled by volunteers "at home".

It should have an up to date list of open tasks, please remove completed tasks; for documentation please add links to the History section below (instead of adding them in between the tasks here).

Policy / issues for discussion (DebConf BoF)

https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2013/12/msg00064.html has some ideas.

Release-critical bugs

Leaf package with RC Bugs

Status from Jan 2014

Ping upstream means tell them we are going to remove it from Debian unstable in 3 weeks if no action New forwarded reports should wait 3 months until the next step

Package

popcon

bug

notes

next steps

libnet-irc-perl

386

608583

Not obviously RC - but unmaintained

libscalar-number-perl

107

723563, 708839

libhtml-wikiconverter-moinmoin-perl

100

720018

Maybe downgrade-worthy (random failure only in test suite?)

Check for downgrade

libembperl-perl

92

666844, 709668, 713249

Active upstream

popcon-based cutoff point (n=50)

libregexp-grammars-perl

38

721547

Being worked on upstream

libmodule-packaged-perl

32

717555

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

libtext-mediawikiformat-perl

31

711619

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

libmath-algebra-symbols-perl

27

711602

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

libscriptalicious-perl

26

711614

Maybe downgrade-worthy (random failure only in test suite?)

Check for downgrade

libthread-queue-any-perl

25

711620

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

libhtml-template-dumper-perl

16

720021

Maybe downgrade-worthy (random failure only in test suite?)

Check for downgrade

libgearman-client-async-perl

12

571358

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

libnet-dri-perl

10

710954

Upstream engaged?

librdf-helper-perl

9

710983

Still failing even with patch proposed

Send update to upstream bug

libmojomojo-perl

7

737434

Licence issue

libpoe-component-client-mpd-perl

7

738906

Ping on 19th May

libjifty-plugin-comment-perl

5

720789

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

libjifty-plugin-wikitoolbar-perl

5

720792

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

libdevel-bt-perl

4

721421

Ping on 6th June

libjifty-plugin-chart-perl

3

724141

Ping on 6th June

libjifty-plugin-oauth-perl

3

720791

Remove on 27th March if no reply from upstream

Transitions

Packages/tools

List of tasks that need to be performed on all/many of our packages; or maintenance tools ...

PET

(not exclusively a pkg-perl topic but still)

We more or less decided to focus on PET, among our tools that need love, during the DebConf12-DebConf13 year.

To be done:

Resources:

dh-make-perl

packagecheck{,.pl}

lintian profile

forward-patch/-bug

Recurring tasks

When a new Perl hits unstable

When oldstable is archived

Background tasks

Things that would be nice to do, often repetitive. Can be done globally, or every time you work on a specific package.

Nice to have, some day

Subpages

History