Hi, Detlev Brodowski wrote on Wed, 28 Aug 2013 14:13:08 +0200: > I have seen that there is a new release 0.05 which is now an > official release. > > http://search.cpan.org/~lzap/UUID-0.05/
Looking at https://metacpan.org/source/LZAP/UUID-0.05/Changes, the only changes between 0.04 and 0.05 are: - Took over maintaining (Lukas Zapletal - LZAP) - Version bump (no changes) - Releasing in the original location Especially the "Version bump (no changes)" entry makes this to still apply: Alessandro Ghedini wrote on Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:38:47 +0200: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:40:21PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > 5. The UUID 0.04 doesn't add much over UUID 0.02 - it seems the only notable > > change is the addition of licensing information which isn't actually legal > > (since the authors that added that license do not appear to be copyright > > holders). > > Agreed, there's no need to package the 0.04 (if legal at all). But then again, with the new maintainer a few of the older TODOs could be retried: > > 3. Last upload of the UUID module (version 0.02) was in 2001; the packaging > > style seems to be of quite an old vintage. There are serious outstanding > > bugs > > on the RT (not installable on CentOS) that do not have replies from the > > package > > maintainer. This means that Debian is effectively the maintainer (there is > > no > > upstream), which would certainly put greater load on the pkg-perl team than > > desired. > > I see two entries in the RT queue of UUID, which are in practice the same bug > (i.e. cannot build on CentOS) which IMO is caused by the fact that the > reporters > haven't installed uuid-dev (or whatever it is called on CentOS). I can build > it > with no problems here, so I don't see how we are affected. > > As for the abandoned state, yes it's unfortunate, but given the lack of > problems > I don't see why worry. Also, AFAICT the whole UUID distribution is no more > than > 100 lines of XS/Perl code which tightly wrap the libuuid API: nothing that > can't > be handled IMO. [...] > Anyway, has anyone tried to contact the original author? As a last resort, one > can also try to contact the PAUSE admins to see if they are willing to grant > co-maintainership of UUID to someone else (see PAUSE docs [0]). [...]> > [0] http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about#takeover Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org