Bug#578551: libauthen-sasl-cyrus-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.12: strange version number

[Niko Tyni]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 11:05:31AM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
 
> On Sun, 2 May 2010, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> >This is an awkward one. The -server suffix is intended to distinguish
> >a fork of the code against the main CPAN line. Both versions (
> >http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/P/PB/PBOETTCH/ and
> >http://search.cpan.org/~adamson/Authen-SASL-Cyrus-0.12/Cyrus.pod)
> >
> >look fairly quiet, and there have been no new release of mainline since
> >the fork was made. Perhaps it would be appropriate to see whether
> >the -server variant could take over the main line. and a 0.14 be
> >released?
> 
> The -server supports everything the non '-server' has. At the time
> of writing it I tried to merge it with Mark's release, but I never
> reached him.
> 
> I remember a short mail exchange between Russ and Graham Barr and me
> beginning of this year, where Graham said he wanted to merge the two
> to produce a completely new release with a new name. Don't know what
> happened since then.

A bit of googling finds

 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.ldap/2254

which has a newer address for Mark and where he gives his permission to
take over the non '-server' version AFAICS.
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Niko Tyni   ntyni at debian.org