Package: libdancer2-perl Version: 0.205002+dfsg-1 On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:26:37AM -0500, Steve Dondley wrote: > Hi, thanks for getting back. > > I got the message from Dancer 2 after running a command to install a sample > App: > > steve@nginxdancer:/var/www/html$ sudo dancer2 -a MyWeb::App > > The latest stable Dancer2 release is 0.205002, you are currently using > 0.204002. > Please check http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer2/ for updates.
On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 05:28:27PM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > * Dominic Hargreaves [05/12/2017 16:15] : > > > > I am interested to hear that Dancer itself tells you about newer versions. > > Can you clarify where you are seeing this? If it's the software itself, > > it might be appropriate for us to modify the package to give Debian-specific > > advice. > > The function _version_check in Dancer2::CLI::Command::gen checks CPAN to > see if a newer version is available. > > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CROMEDOME/Dancer2-0.205002/lib/Dancer2/CLI/Command/gen.pm I think this is unhelpful[1] behaviour for a perl module in Debian and should be disabled. (It is also arguably privacy-infringing if the user does not expect that command to make external HTTP calls). Dominic. [1] <https://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2017/12/msg00004.html>