On 01/24/2015 03:59 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 02:23:12PM +0100, Armin K. wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've noticed a lot of Perl Modules tickets last night and wondered why >> they weren't picked up by the currency scripts. After some >> investigation, the format used for specifying the URL and md5sum isn't >> the standard one used by other packages and none of the perl modules end >> up in the wget-list. >> >> It can easily be fixed, although. The attached patch modifies the >> Archive-Zip section to use a layout like other packages do. An example >> on what's visibly different can be seen in the screenshot. It could be >> changed to use the more standard (Download (HTTP), MD5Sum, etc) >> approach, but I don't think it's necessary here. >> >> Now, if nobody minds, I can fix all the packages and submit a patch. I >> would also like to move download url's and md5sums into entities at the >> beginning of the page. >> >> Pro is we get version checks from currency scripts and all the modules >> in the wget-list. I can't yet see any cons. So if anybody has any >> suggestion or reason why we shouldn't do this - please speak up. >> > > The problem with perl is that if the maintainer of a module > changes, the link points to the old versions and the new version is > not found. When I checked versions in August, two modules had > different maintainers. > > So a few updates will still slip through the net. But if this > change means most of them are automatatically noticed, it will > definitely help. > > For the new tickets, no rush - I'm preparing for a new build, got a > few more things to sort out before I start the build (and I've also > got a lot more perl changes than this, some of which look as if they > might pull in new dependencies, > > ĸen >
We could use search.cpan.org infrastructure. Even if maintainer changes, they point to the new one, ie. http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Writer/ I'm currently looking into it. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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