Bug#677732: libhtml-defang-perl: Please update to new upstream 1.04 containing potentially security-related bugfixes

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 12-06-18 at 12:38pm, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 05:08:06PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > The new upstream releases are 18 months and two years old, 
> > respectively, which makes me worry if perhaps you have lost interest 
> > in maintaining this package.  If so, I would be happy to adopt it 
> > and maintain it under the umbrella of the Debian Perl team.
> 
> Please feel free to adopt the package and maintain it as part of the 
> Debian Perl group.
> 
> This also goes for any of my packages which have not yet been borged 
> by the team: The Perl group is welcome to take any of my packages, 
> there is no need to ask first. 
> (http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2010/04/msg00011.html)
> 
> > If yyou area still interested, I can dearly recommend you to join 
> > the Debian Perl team yourself,
> 
> I am a memeber.
> 
> > NB! I notice that 1/4 of the 88 packages that you are involved in 
> > maintaining have new upstream releases, and many of them are 
> > untouched for years.  Please consider nursing your packages more, or 
> > alternatively pass them on to others.
> 
> I am not standing in the way of anyone who would like to help maintain 
> any of those packages: I welcome adoption, co-maintainers and 
> low-threshold NMUs.  Mostly I just haven't gotten around to uploading 
> the less popular/important packages with the Perl group set as 
> maintainer, but anyone else is welcome to do so as well.

Thanks for your response - and for your flexible and wecoming attitude!

I've cc'ed the Perl team to share that with our fellow team members.

I will immediately look at libhtml-defang-perl as I have a special need 
for that (CiderWebmail is expected to grow a dependency on it in few 
days).


  - Jonas

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