I've finally uploaded pike 7.8 to unstable (despite the failure to dump dump.pike). The documentation handling will also have to wait. The set of meta packages is unchanged. Changes since 7.8.352-dfsg-1:

* Add trigger for dumping of Pike modules when pike7.8-core or any module package is installed. * Remove support for the unversioned local module and include directories (/usr/local/lib/pike/*) to avoid having to coordinate their creation and removal by multiple versions. * Drop apparently obsolete build-dep libgtkhtml2-dev. * Don't run update-alternatives --remove on upgrade. * Exclude Tools.PV, which requires GTK (not GTK2). * debian/rules, unbreak_cross_compilation.dpatch: Use the right gcc and pass --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) to configure as necessary. Fix various bugs preventing cross compilation (Closes: #582242). Thanks to Marc Dirix. * Exclude modules GDK, Gnome, and GTKSupport, which also are for GTK+/Gnome 1.2, and update the package description of pike7.8-gtk to reflect the fact that it provides GTK+ 2.0 bindings. * Disable --with-relocatable-dumped-modules; it doesn't seem that we need it and it doesn't seem to work 100% properly. * no_dump_modules.dpatch (new): Patch install.pike not to dump modules at build time (thus no need to exclude master.pike.o in debian/rules). * Move AutoDoc and module-related modules and standalone tools to -dev and let -dev depend on -image. * module-layout.dpatch: Move misplaced parenthesis that caused the wrong local include directory to be added. * Build-depend on libmysqlclient-dev instead of libmysqlclient15-dev, which is now a virtual package provided by the former. * dumping_problems.dpatch (new): Patch from CVS fixing problems encoding the master object when dumping some modules. * cflags.dpatch (new): Make pike -x cflags print include_prefix as-is instead of stripping the last component. * Drop pike7.8-config; pike -x cflags and pike --dumpversion fills its functions. * Some changes in the meta package relationships.