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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Russ,

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

Am Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 10:04:11AM -0700 schrieb 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.
> 
> 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.

Perfectly as you prefer.  I havn't seen the Perl team breaking someting
but well, I was just asking (and documenting that you were asked for
further reference).
 
> 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!

No need to be sorry about this - finally we are volunteers.  In my
attempt to salvage packages I've seen way, way, way worse things.

Kind regards and thank you for all your contributions
    Andreas.

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