On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:56:56AM +0100, Nick Cleaton wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:45:13AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > What's the etiquette for dealing with unresponsive module authors? > > I've found rt.cpan.org very handy for that. One author failed to fix > security problems in response to emails for over a year, but had a new > version up within a couple of days being RTed about it. >
But even that can take some time depending on the author. Heres one I did earlier :- http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bug.html?id=2264 Subject Clone 0.13 cuases Segfault Created Thu Mar 20 04:40:43 2003 Updated Sun Sep 7 02:33:41 2003 Got fixed in the end but ended up replacing the module with a equivilent (storable). Gook luck Paddy
