Bug#1117609: libnet-ldapapi-perl: What about maintaining libnet-ldapapi-perl in Debian Perl Group

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> writes:

> I'm currently checking packages that are packaging CPAN modules which
> are not maintained by the Debian Perl Group on Salsa whether it might
> make sense to hand these over to Debian Perl Group.  I stumbled upon
> libnet-ldapapi-perl and can't find any good reason why not to move this
> package to a team that has a great tradition to make team wide changes
> and thus reducing the work for single maintainers.

> In the past I've filed some ITS bugs for maintainers suspected to be
> MIA but I know at least for Russ this is not the case.  Thus asking
> here before doing any work on the package first.

Hi Andreas,

Bill should weigh in here, but my first reaction is that for as long as
Bill wants to keep doing the primary maintenance and upstream
coordination, I think it would be easier to have this package not be
team-maintained. Bill has relevant direct personal contacts with upstream
and we work together to coordinate uploads and whatnot, and I think
there's some risk of team maintenance accidentally complicating things or
creating confusion.

I see there's a pending bug for a dependency fix; I'll try to take a look
at that soon. Sorry about missing that!

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>