Re: Bug#466487: libauthen-smb-perl: should this package be orphaned or removed?

[Will Lowe <will@willowe.net>]

Hi there,

Original maintainer piping in.  I definitely don't have the interest  
or time to maintain this package.  Please mark it orphaned,  or remove  
it from the archive.  I suspect it's been quite a long time since  
anyone found it useful.

Will Lowe
lowe@debian.org

On Feb 19, 2008, at 7:43 AM, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

> 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 * Package is severely out of date.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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