Hi Ron, thanks for your mail. According to qa.d.org, your perl packages are libapache-request-perl and libemail-valid-perl. We will see what we can do about it (although the "really orphaned" packages have priority, as have those that we add to the archive by ourselves). We have not yet thought how to handle NMUs by the group (since the usage of CVS is different and maybe not even there). Currently, they seem to have no bugs. Good work! Maybe someone who cares can open bugs in our "modules to package" tracker for them, in case they are out of date. When we come around to do them, we can NMU the new version. We'll see. Are you subscribed to debian-perl@l.d.o, or do you want to get direct mails when they might concern you? nomeata Am Do, den 08.01.2004 schrieb Ron um 05:30: > Hi Joachim, > > I've got to head out in just a moment, so apologies if this is > excessively brief anywhere... > > This sounds like a very cool move and I wish it all the best. > > There are a couple of perl packages I am ostensibly responsible for, > which I packaged at a time I needed them, but which for the most > part I currently do not. For that reason they are not among the > most active of my packages (and are almost surely in your list of > outdated ones :). > > I have in the past vehemently resisted the occasional attempt of > people to orphan them (without consultation) out from underneath me. > > As the bts will testify, I am willing to allow them to pass into the > hands of a more dedicated maintainer, but not to rot orphaned while > they are still otherwise functional and while I can trivially keep > their current versions alive in the archive for people who need them. > > If the ensuing discussions do amount to something, you have my full > blessing to NMU the perl packages under my care and bring them up > to whatever standards you may propose to ease future maintainance. > > If this actually evolves successfully into a dedicated working group > that proves itself capable of handling this task (as I hope it will) > beyond the honeymoon excitement, then it is likely that I will also > happily hand over the maintainer field of those packages to the > group also, if they would like them. > > all the best, > Ron > > > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:47:12PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > At November 17th, a discussion about a common problem for Debian Perl > > developers was started on debian-perl@l.d.o. [1] Most developers often > > realize that modules available on CPAN are not included in the Debian > > archive. This hinders the packaging of Perl applications and other > > modules. -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner nomeata@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: joachimbreitner@amessage.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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