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Re: Upstream requires forked Date::Manip



> The upstream maintainer of XMLTV, which I package for Debian, has
> temporarily forked the Perl Date::Manip module.  He says:
> 
>    Over the past six months or so I've accumulated various bug fixes to
>    the Date::Manip module, most of them because of xmltv bug reports
>    sent by users.  Rather than wait any longer for the upstream
>    Date::Manip to incorporate the fixes I have made my own release
>    (intended as a temporary measure, not a permanent fork)... I've
>    updated xmltv to require this version of the module (since it does
>    fix several fairly important problems).
> 
> I'm not entirely sure what to do with this.

All sorts of things fell into place in the day since I wrote this.  It
turns out that upstream has managed to get most of the forked patches
incorporated, and will release this week, so I guess I don't have
anything to deal with after all.

Thanks,

KEN

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Kenneth J. Pronovici <pronovic@debian.org>

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