Re: Bug#466487: libauthen-smb-perl: should this package be orphaned or removed?
Barry deFreese dijo [Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:14:59PM -0500]:
> Package: libauthen-smb-perl
> Version: 0.91-3
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
> Usertags: proposed-orphan
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> While reviewing some packages, your package came up as a package that
> should maybe be orphaned by its maintainer, because:
>
> * Maintainer seems inactive. Last upload was 2004.
> * RC bug older than 60 days.
> * I am unable to find an upstream source. I have searched CPAN and with google.
> * Package is severely out of date.
> * Popcon of 82.
Hi,
I'm cc:ing this message to the pkg-perl group - we might end up
adopting/hijacking the package ;-)
You can get the newest upstream version of the package at CPAN ([1,
2]). The package _is_ at the newest upstream revision.
> If you think that it should be removed from Debian instead of being
> orphaned, please reply to this bug and tell so.
>
> If you disagree and want to continue to maintain this package, please
> close this bug and do an upload also fixing the other issues.
> Also, you can study the possibility of taking co-maintainers.
I don't have a compelling reason to jump and adopt this package;
however, I know many modules in the Authen::* namespace were recently
grabbed by Xavier Oswald. Xavier, or anybody in the group: Are you
interested? :)
Greetings,
[1] http://search.cpan.org/~pmkane/Authen-Smb-0.91/Smb.pm
[2] http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMKANE/Authen-Smb-0.91.tar.gz
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