Re: CPAN modules for libvirt-tck

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 01:08:03PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> 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.

I have a copyright clarification from Steve [(C) 2003-2011 Steve
Purkis]. Rob's mail bounced so I think removing the hooks tests will be
easiert as a start.
Cheers,
 -- Guido