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

[Bill MacAllister]

On 2025-10-08 12:07, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Russ,
> 
> Thanks a lot for the quick response.

And apologies for my slow response.  I have been traveling and then
distracted by a hobby that has taken over my life.

> 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.

I'll contact upstream, Quanah Gibson-Mount, and ask him.  He does less
perl work these days and he might be interested in handing this off to 
the
Debian Perl Group.

> 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.

And apologies again for being slow.  Thanks Andreas and Russ.

Bill

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