Re: CPAN modules for libvirt-tck

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 08:00:54AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi Guido
> 
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 07:15:14PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > I'm currently looking into packaging libvirt-tck for Debian:
> > 
> > 	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtTCK
> > 
> > in order to make testing new versions of libvirt/qemu/xen etc. easier in
> > Debian. Most of the needed CPAN modules are alrady packaged but some are
> > missing:
> > 
> >  Config::Record
> >         http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-Record/
> >  Slurp
> >         http://search.cpan.org/dist/Slurp/
> >  TAP::Formatter::HTML
> >         http://search.cpan.org/dist/TAP-Formatter-HTML/ 
> >  accessors
> >         http://search.cpan.org/dist/accessors/
> >  Net::SSH::Perl
> > 	http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SSH-Perl/
> > 
> > I've used dh-make-perl to build packages which worked great but since I
> > don't know much about CPAN packaging I wonder if there are any takers
> > for maintaining them?
> 
> I had only a short look at them. There are two problems so far I can
> see. Both Slurp and accessors does not seem to have a proper copyright
> and license on them, so if upstream would not clarify they cannot be
> redistributed in Debian.
> 
> Do you know if Fedora solved that by getting clarification from
> upstream?

Thanks for checking. I mailed Steve Purkis (accessors) about the missing
copyright and Rob Casey (slurp) about missing copyright and license. The
later isn't crucial for VirtTCK and could be removed for now.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Regards
> Salvatore