Bug#676164: UUID-0.04 marked UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE on CPAN

2012-06-18 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:40:21PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: I spent a few spare cycles to do a quick investigation. The good news is that it looks like your instincts were correct. However, in summary, I would suggest a removal of the UUID module from Debian if possible. The full diff

Bug#676164: UUID-0.04 marked UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE on CPAN

2012-06-17 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Florian, (Cc'ing debian-perl list - hopefully some of the current active members can chime in) I spent a few spare cycles to do a quick investigation. The good news is that it looks like your instincts were correct. However, in summary, I would suggest a removal of the UUID module from Debian

Bug#676164: UUID-0.04 marked UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE on CPAN

2012-06-15 Thread Florian Schlichting
Hi Jonathan, What stops you from downloading directly instead of using uscan? the fact that it's a big red ** UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE ** warning, and I am in no position to judge whether that's a false alarm and it is in fact a perfectly authorized release or not (I note the two authors are not

Bug#676164: UUID-0.04 marked UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE on CPAN

2012-06-13 Thread Florian Schlichting
Hi Joseph, your CPAN release 0.04 of UUID is marked ** UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE ** in bold red, and the latest version that comes up under the distribution permalink (http://search.cpan.org/dist/UUID/) is still UUID-0.02. Is it possible for you to do something about that? This is likely a

Bug#676164: UUID-0.04 marked UNAUTHORIZED RELEASE on CPAN

2012-06-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
Florian, What stops you from downloading directly instead of using uscan? The permission issue is a CPAN/PAUSE problem that has affected many modules, including e.g. Algorithm::Diff::XS. But we do have the correct versions in Debian, since the maintainer can download even unauthorized versions