> These are the cpan URLs that are 404 right now and would need
> upversioning. (or, to avoid upversioning, alternative downloads for
> some of them can be located in the big source repos for Gentoo or
> Fedora.)
>
> perl-Config-IniFiles
> perl-Data-Dumper
> perl-Statistics-Descriptive
> perl-Text
On 19 July 2014 21:19, Heinz Wiesinger wrote:
> Mass updates are an exception, not a rule. And we haven't yet established that
> what is required to do at this point qualifies as a mass update at all. Before
> talking about bending rules, first focus on creating an actual overview of the
> fixes t
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:25:42PM +0200, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> I would say to use metacpan for homepages and download links, but
> before giving a personal opinion I would like to read some statements
> about the cpan situation from some perl source...
So, can I begin patching the SlackBuild
2014-07-19 20:16 GMT+02:00 Zachary Storer :
> 1) If we decide to automate upgrading all of the perl/ slackbuilds to
> use the latest version, how should we make sure it doesn't break other
> slackbuilds that rely on that perl module?
>
> 2) If we decide to automate upgrading all of the perl/ slackb
On Saturday 19 July 2014 13:42:51 Zachary Storer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Erik Hanson wrote:
> > It's fine if you'd like to send us a patch to change the download links to
> > whatever is working/recommended, but taking over or updating scripts on
> > behalf of someone els
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Erik Hanson wrote:
>
> It's fine if you'd like to send us a patch to change the download links to
> whatever is working/recommended, but taking over or updating scripts on
> behalf of someone else requires their permission.
>
>
> --
> Erik Hanson
Ok, t
On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:16:08 -0600
Zachary Storer wrote:
> 2) If we decide to automate upgrading all of the perl/ slackbuilds,
> should we have just a single maintainer for _all_ of the perl/
> slackbuilds, or should we continue with having a different maintainer
> for each perl slackbuild module
Hello,
I'm currently working on a script to convert and test-build all of the
perl/* slackbuilds to use metacpan as their homepage, and www.cpan.org
as their download link. search.cpan.org is providing many dead links,
and users of sbotools are finding many dead download links, thus
forcing them t
