On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:22 PM, James E Keenan <jk...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Last month I sent this message to the perl5-porters mailing list. I got > no replies. Does anyone on this list have thoughts on this? > > ##### > Two recently filed RT tickets ... > > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121829 > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122596 > > ... led me to look for the source code for ExtUtils::Installed and > ExtUtils::Packlist. They're part of the ExtUtils-Install distribution > which is distributed with core. > > In the core distro, ExtUtils-Install is found under 'cpan/', which > suggests that it is *primarily* maintained on CPAN by one or more > maintainers, and not maintained by P5P. > > However, when I go to http://search.cpan.org/~ > bingos/ExtUtils-Install-1.68/, I see that this distro's bug tracker is > listed as http://rt.perl.org/rt3/ and its repository is listed as > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/. In other words, it's maintained in > core not on cpan/. > > If so, then shouldn't ExtUtils-Install be under 'dist/' rather than > 'cpan/' in the core distribution? > > From pod/perlsource.pod: > > dist: "This directory is for dual-life modules where the blead source is > canonical." > > I'd like to clarify this before embarking on work on either of the two RTs > cited above. > AFAIK it has recently been decided to move it from core, but as it hasn't seen a release yet rt.cpan.org still thinks the upstream bugtracker is rt.perl.org. Leon
