Hi Étienne, Am Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 10:11:51AM +0200 schrieb Étienne Mollier: > While it certainly eases Perl modules maintenance to maintain > them within the Debian Perl Team, this is by no means mandatory. > The Debian Med Team does have a couple of perl modules under its > umbrella as you know. ;)
Sure I know. However, this is for a reason and I did not found any reason why DR::SunDown is not team maintained. > > It was showing up since it has no Vcs URL > > set and I would love to investigate for the reasons. BTW, the package > > has a popcon of zero votes. > > Out of curiosity, I had a look at DR::SunDown on CPAN[1], and > noted Dmitry is also upstream of the module, which probably > explains the specific maintenance. I don't know how relevant > SunDown is today; popcon value sure doesn't hint for a trendy > package. On the other hand the package hasn't direly needed > maintenance to maintain itself in testing for more than ten > years without uploads; by the way, it seems that it flown below > Holger's radar when proceeding to mass rebuilds, and probably > has no buildinfo file. > > [1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/DR::SunDown > > I don't know whether this needs a course of action. Preserve > the status quo and the module may last a few more years in the > archive as long as dependencies do not cause breaking changes. > Unless Dmitry has objections, the module could be maintained > within the Perl Team, no problem; we have routines to take over > packages in a couple of commands. Otherwise, lack of upstream > activity for the past ten years (both on libsundown and > DR:SunDown fronts) and zero popcon could also hint that the > package could be candidate for removal of the archive, but I > lack enough context to tell for sure. Thank you for your analysis. I do not think that the package itself *needs* action. However, for the health of Debian[1] as well as my goal to have packages on Salsa (if we really need the package) its better to do something. The Bug of the Day[2] initiative was started with the goal in mind to move packages to Salsa which are not there for no good reasons. I think I've spotted such a package - thus my question here. Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2024/08/msg00298.html [2] https://salsa.debian.org/tille/tiny_qa_tools/-/wikis/Tiny-QA-tasks -- https://fam-tille.de
