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Chip Salzenberg has recently given up[1] maintaining the libmail-spf-query-
perl package[2], among others.

Chip also wrote to me:
> Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > I understand you are the maintainer of libmail-spf-query-perl, the
> > Debian package for Mail::SPF::Query[3].
>
> I'm sorry, but no; I've left the Debian project.

...and:
> Julian Mehnle wrote:
> > Do you plan on pursuing the issue any further and regain a functional
> > key on the Debian keyring, or are you going to leave it at that?
>
> The latter.  Debian management needs to reform before I spend more time
> working around it.  :-( 
>
> > If the latter is the case, I'll try to convince the pkg-perl-
> > maintainers people to "hijack" the package without it being officially
> > orphaned. 
>
> That sounds like a good plan.

So I am now going to adopt the package and have it sponsored by the 
pkg-perl Alioth project.

Julian.

References:
 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/11/msg00733.html
 2. http://packages.debian.org/libmail-spf-query-perl
 3. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-SPF-Query
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