Am 05.04.2020 um 22:20 teilte Adam Borowski mit: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 05:51:28PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Hi, >> * Package name : libsys-hostaddr-perl >> Version : 0.993-1 >> Upstream Author : Jeremy Kister|http://jeremy.kister.net/ >> * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Sys-HostAddr > >> Changes since the last upload: >> >> * Initial release. (Closes: #955449). > > I'm not quite sure if this particular implementation is adequate. So far > I noticed that it: > > * has seen no updates since 2014 > Age of software is not always a sign of quality. ;-) > * relies on a long-deprecated interface, via a tool that hasn't seen an > upstream release since April 2001 > Well, I'm aware of this drawback. My intend was to first push the tool into Debian and then contact upstream to get rid of net-tools. No, I did no test the responsiveness of the upstream author yet. Should I do that beforehand? > Thus, I wonder if there's a better module to do this task. > Well, I did not really thought about using an alternative tool. I just noticed that the author of proftp used it in his test suite, hence I started packaging that code. Maybe I should go the way round and try to convince TJ to use a different perl module in his test suite. Not sure if [1] does the job. Hilmar [1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Net::Address::IP::Local -- sigfault #206401 http://counter.li.org
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