SQL::Statement unusable in major Linux distributions

[Jens Rehsack]

2009/10/26 Paul Beardsell <paul at beardsell.com>:
> 2009/10/26 Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu at gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi:
>>
>> I'm not sure why all this discussion is happening on the Debian list.
>> I've not seen much that has been discussed that is Debian-specific.
>>
>> Note that unstable has version 1.22 of this module, which is the most
>> recent version as upstream. Debian users can always install older
>> versions of the package if they so choose (see the apt-get manpage).
>>
> I agree, not Debian specific, but reporting of bugs in so-called "old"
> versions of libsql-statement-perl [SQL::Statement]] (even though the bugs
> are in in stable here) are strongly discouraged by the package maintainer at
> CPAN.

Paul has caught the point. As the maintainers of the CPAN module we
are not responsible for sloppy update cycles for what reason ever in any
distributions (Linux and others), so we decline to accept bugs for module
releases which are depreciated from our point of view. On the other hand,
we're happy to work together with the packaging maintainers of any
distribution to help choosing stable versions (in case of S:S I think,
the packager saw the failed tests of 1.17 .. 1.20 and didn't took
deeper). Same could be for 1.24 of Sys::Filesystem (I added new tests
to get feedback via SmokeTest - but this doesn't tell any about whether
the reported errors where in the module since ages).

Paul now tries to figure out, what would be the very best way to report
such a problem next time and I think he hopes for a statement from
the Debian perl package maintainers.

/Jens