Re: Request to update libnet-pcap-perl
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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I am the maintainer of Net::Pcap, the Perl interface to the libpcap,
> packaged under the name libnet-pcap-perl in Debian. I was recently
> checking the CPANTS metrics of Net::Pcap, and was surprised to discover
> that Debian still ships the very old version 0.04 in all its distribution:
> » http://packages.debian.org/src:libnet-pcap-perl
>
> Is there any reasons like compilation problems to prevent it from being
> updated? Recent versions of Net::Pcap fixed a number of bugs, added
> several features, and the documented API was changed to be on par with
> the C API (while still keeping backward compatibility with the old Perl
> API).
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
Hello Sébastien,
It seems the maintainer have forgotten about your package, hopefully
will write us or someone will hijack the package now that someone noted
this.
We as group can't do anything but any of this 2 options or maybe a DD
make a NMU for your package while waiting response from Ola.
Regards.
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Jose Luis Rivas. San Cristóbal, Venezuela. GPG 0xCACAB118
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