Hi, [2 years after the initial bug report, and 1 year after I wrote the text quoted below.]
intrigeri: > that's a leaf package, with 1 vote on popcon, and upstream didn't > reply on the bug report since almost a year ⇒ even though this bug > only happens in specific build environment, I'd rather remove the > package from testing/sid so that it's not on my radar anymore. > Thoughts? Anyone prefers fixing the bug? Additional data points: - a patch for this problem this bug report is about was apparently applied to some VCS but never released: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=56319 We could certainly do the job an upstream maintainer would, i.e. review & apply it on our side. - last time the upstream author uploaded anything on CPAN was in 2011 - this module did not get updated to benefit from "recent" changes in perl: there's a proposed patch to "Reimplement in pureperl now that Socket has multicast support" waiting for upstream author to comment since May, 2012 (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77285) So while we could certainly fix this bug as part of the Debian delta (just like openSUSE apparently did), I see very little value in investing any more time in keeping this module in Debian. I propose we remove it from testing/sid. Cheers, -- intrigeri