Hi, I've a small procedural question regarding the course of action when one discovers - and fixes locally - a bug in the perl-modules package :) (and yes, I know that perl-modules does not belong to pkg-perl :) The problem is that Net::FTP does not play nice with FTP servers which close a data connection immediately after sending an error response to a RETR command. This, incidentally, breaks uscan for packages that live on such servers[0]. I've found the problem - two (or maybe three) problems, actually - and I've opened a CPAN ticket against libnet - http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37700 Now, how to deal with the Debian side? One option is to notify Brendan O'Dea, the perl-modules maintainer, immediately; another one is to wait a while for Graham Barr's reaction to the CPAN ticket. My personal preference is towards the second option - after all, it will probably be much wiser for the Debian maintainers to integrate an upstream fix :) My only worry is that we might be getting a bit ahead in the Lenny release cycle; or would such a fix be uploaded with a higher-than-normal priority so that it is pushed into lenny even after the freeze? Sorry for wasting everybody's time with such a trivial and somewhat needless question; I guess waiting *is* pretty much the only clear and rational course of action :) Still, just thought I'd ask people who might have had similar issues in the past. G'luck, Peter [0] Quite unrelated to the problem at hand, but one such package is dante; I noticed a couple of RC bugs in it last week, did some work on fixing them locally, and only today thought to check if it might be mentioned in wnpp; sure enough, it was orphaned. Then, later today I decided to figure out just *why* my trivial watchfile from last week was not working - and stumbled upon a libnet bug. -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@cnsys.bg roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 The rest of this sentence is written in Thailand, on
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