Re: Why is Compress::Zlib so old?
Dnia 24-05-2007, czw o godzinie 11:27 +0200, Krzysztof Krzyżaniak
napisał(a):
> Dnia 23-05-2007, śro o godzinie 13:03 -0500, Gunnar Wolf napisał(a):
> > Hi,
> >
> > I usually browse the packages for which I am listed as an uploader
> > every now and then to check for up-to-dateness. Today, I decided to
> > dive into the bigger group of packages we group-maintain. I found
> > Compress::Zlib at version 1.42-2, with upstream version 2.004
> > available - So I decided to step in :)
> >
> > Now, I later noticed that the 1.42-2 version was prepared by Gregor in
> > November 2006, and that there is work in progress from Eloy (changelog
> > last touched in April 24) to upgrade to 2.004.
> >
> > Things started smelling strange. Now, on the module's version, the
> > major (1 -> 2) version jump was in mid-2005, jumping from 1.38 to
> > 2.000_00, as a beta release (I guess that explains why that changelog
> > just skipped over our current 1.42). 2.001 was officially stable by
> > the beginning of November 2006.
> >
> > Now, the question: Why don't we have 2.004 already in? Is there
> > breakage? Is the API incompatible? If the API changed, do you think we
> > should still maintain a libcompress-zlib-1-perl (or similar) module,
> > so packages using the older API don't break? Eloy, why didn't you
> > upload after updating? Or am I just paranoid and we can just build and
> > ship?
>
> I've noticed new version after freezing time and then I'd have to wait
> for libcompress-raw-zlib-perl (new package).
... and for IO::Compress::Base and IO::Compress::Gzip and
IO::Uncompress::Base and IO::Uncompress::Gunzip. They all separate
packages now.
eloy
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