Re: Bug#555116: Shouldn't Debian Perl team take over libgetopt-mixed-perl
Hi Sascha,
Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> I have imported this library into Git, updated to the latest
> upstream version, migrated to debhelper, fixed the RC bug and
> cleaned it up to being lintian clean. See
> https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/satta/libgetopt-mixed-perl.git/
When I first read that mail, anonscm.debian.org wasn't reachable for
me for some reason, so I postponed the reply.
> I would be willing to contribute this to the Perl team and also
> ‘maintain’ it
Thanks!
> (unlikely to have upstream updates anytime soon though).
Indeed, it's considered obsolete and deprecated:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Getopt::Mixed#DESCRIPTION
Probably because of the Debian package being so outdated, I didn't
notice that it was considered obsolete when I used it for
dh-dist-zilla as the warning referenced above is quite clear. Will
probably change dh-dist-zilla to Getopt::Long.
The only other two reverse dependencies left seem cil and
fusionforge-plugin-globalsearch. Maybe upstream of these packages can
be convinced to switch over to Getopt::Long, then we perhaps can remove
libgetopt-mixed-perl from Debian completely.
> My changes are currently formatted as NMU,
Some nitpicks, though:
"Switch to debhelper" is a very confusing changelog entry as
debian/rules was using debhelper before, too, just in a different
style. Should probably be something like "Switch to minimal dh style"
or "Switch to minimal dh v7 style" (as that style was IIRC introduced
with debhelper v7) or so.
I don't get this commit:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/satta/libgetopt-mixed-perl.git/commit/?id=e281abe0d912b0aeca731fbc93f958fa8bf71fbd
#817532 already has been fixed as part of my NMU which you already have
in your git repository:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/satta/libgetopt-mixed-perl.git/commit/?id=8a269f264619ba0f215a72d523f295bfcd2b1988
And something you likely didn't know: The Debian Perl Team prefers
links to metacpan.org instead of search.cpan.org as Homepage header,
e.g. https://metacpan.org/release/Getopt-Mixed instead of
http://search.cpan.org/~cjm/Getopt-Mixed/.
> has anyone already contacted the current maintainer directly?
Nope. Feel free to do so. You might want to Cc the MIA team when doing
so. See /srv/qa.debian.org/mia/README on qa.debian.org and
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA#You_know_someone_who_seems_MIA
Regards, Axel
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