Bug#578551: libauthen-sasl-cyrus-perl: FTBFS with Perl 5.12: strange version number

[Dominic Hargreaves]

[removing mark at nb.net as it bounces]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 11:05:31AM +0200, Patrick Boettcher wrote:
> On Sun, 2 May 2010, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>> This is an awkward one. The -server suffix is intended to distinguish
>> a fork of the code against the main CPAN line. Both versions (
>> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/P/PB/PBOETTCH/ and
>> http://search.cpan.org/~adamson/Authen-SASL-Cyrus-0.12/Cyrus.pod)
>>
>> look fairly quiet, and there have been no new release of mainline since
>> the fork was made. Perhaps it would be appropriate to see whether
>> the -server variant could take over the main line. and a 0.14 be
>> released?
>
> The -server supports everything the non '-server' has. At the time of  
> writing it I tried to merge it with Mark's release, but I never reached  
> him.
>
> I remember a short mail exchange between Russ and Graham Barr and me  
> beginning of this year, where Graham said he wanted to merge the two to  
> produce a completely new release with a new name. Don't know what 
> happened since then.

Hmm, that would result in more work for people using the code, though.
Maybe it would be better to just upload an "unauthorized" release to
CPAN with the same name, minus the '-server' variant. It sounds like
you've put some effort into tracking down the original maintainer.

Maybe the CPAN admins will be able to advise further.

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