Hi Sascha, Sascha Steinbiss wrote: > I have imported this library into Git, updated to the latest > upstream version, migrated to debhelper, fixed the RC bug and > cleaned it up to being lintian clean. See > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/satta/libgetopt-mixed-perl.git/
When I first read that mail, anonscm.debian.org wasn't reachable for me for some reason, so I postponed the reply. > I would be willing to contribute this to the Perl team and also > ‘maintain’ it Thanks! > (unlikely to have upstream updates anytime soon though). Indeed, it's considered obsolete and deprecated: https://metacpan.org/pod/Getopt::Mixed#DESCRIPTION Probably because of the Debian package being so outdated, I didn't notice that it was considered obsolete when I used it for dh-dist-zilla as the warning referenced above is quite clear. Will probably change dh-dist-zilla to Getopt::Long. The only other two reverse dependencies left seem cil and fusionforge-plugin-globalsearch. Maybe upstream of these packages can be convinced to switch over to Getopt::Long, then we perhaps can remove libgetopt-mixed-perl from Debian completely. > My changes are currently formatted as NMU, Some nitpicks, though: "Switch to debhelper" is a very confusing changelog entry as debian/rules was using debhelper before, too, just in a different style. Should probably be something like "Switch to minimal dh style" or "Switch to minimal dh v7 style" (as that style was IIRC introduced with debhelper v7) or so. I don't get this commit: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/satta/libgetopt-mixed-perl.git/commit/?id=e281abe0d912b0aeca731fbc93f958fa8bf71fbd #817532 already has been fixed as part of my NMU which you already have in your git repository: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/satta/libgetopt-mixed-perl.git/commit/?id=8a269f264619ba0f215a72d523f295bfcd2b1988 And something you likely didn't know: The Debian Perl Team prefers links to metacpan.org instead of search.cpan.org as Homepage header, e.g. https://metacpan.org/release/Getopt-Mixed instead of http://search.cpan.org/~cjm/Getopt-Mixed/. > has anyone already contacted the current maintainer directly? Nope. Feel free to do so. You might want to Cc the MIA team when doing so. See /srv/qa.debian.org/mia/README on qa.debian.org and https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/MIA#You_know_someone_who_seems_MIA Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
