(Unofficial) Debian Perl Sprint 2022

Introduction

3 members of the Debian Perl Group met in Hamburg between May 23 and May 30 2022 as part of the Debian Reunion Hamburg and conducted an “unofficial” sprint, i.e. worked on our packages and tools without prior announcement and planning.

The participants would like to thank the Debian Reunion Hamburg organizers for providing the framework for our sprint, all sponsors of the event, and all donors to the Debian project who helped to cover parts of our expenses.

Summary

• Tooling
  • new tool: dpt-prepare: prepare yourself and a source code directory before working on a package
  • new tool: dpt-fixup: apply some automatic fixes to packaging
  • new module: Debian::PkgPerl::Util: utility functions for PkgPerl tools, currently provides probable_build_dependency()
  • new library: dpt-lib.sh: shell library for dpt-* scripts
  • new module: Debian::Upstream::Metadata::Perl: create debian/upstream/metadata (used by dh-make-perl and dpt-debian-upstream)
  • dh-make-perl: new option –guess-nocheck to add <!nocheck>
  • various small improvemens in dh-make-perl and dpt-*
• Packaging
  • Uploads: ≈ 52
  • Bugs (fixed, triaged, …): ≈33
  • Packages with autopkgtests enabled: quite a few :)
  • RM candidates: some identified/pinged, a few RM bugs filed
• Misc
  • discussions on branch names in Git (DEP-14 and git’s master→main change)

Details

The full log is available in Gobby.