Bug#676164: libuuid-perl: Please package the current upstream version 0.04

[Axel Beckert]

Hi again,

after having just checked the upstream changelog and this bug report
so far, I've now checked the actual difference between 0.02 and 0.05.

TL;DR: There has really no code change happend despite those many
version bumps. So if 0.02 (which is in the archive for ages) has no
copyright issue, then 0.05 shouldn't have any either.

Axel Beckert wrote:
> > http://search.cpan.org/~lzap/UUID-0.05/
> 
> Looking at https://metacpan.org/source/LZAP/UUID-0.05/Changes, the
> only changes between 0.04 and 0.05 are:
> 
>   - Took over maintaining (Lukas Zapletal - LZAP)
>   - Version bump (no changes)
>   - Releasing in the original location
> 
> Especially the "Version bump (no changes)" entry makes this to still
> apply:
> 
> Alessandro Ghedini wrote on Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:38:47 +0200:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:40:21PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> > > 5. The UUID 0.04 doesn't add much over UUID 0.02 - it seems the only notable
> > > change is the addition of licensing information which isn't actually legal
> > > (since the authors that added that license do not appear to be copyright
> > > holders).
> > 
> > Agreed, there's no need to package the 0.04 (if legal at all).

Together with the comment in debian/copyright, which seems from the
original author who states that he's fine with the Artistic license, I
think these issues (addition of a license by someone else than the
original author) are no more really present.

0.05 adds a better upstream changelog (which I do appreciate):

---snip---
~/pkg-perl → adiff libuuid-perl_0.02.orig.tar.gz libuuid-perl_0.05.orig.tar.gz
diff -ru Unpack-1735/UUID-0.02/Changes Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05/Changes
--- Unpack-1735/UUID-0.02/Changes       2001-02-08 15:07:59.000000000 +0100
+++ Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05/Changes       2012-12-14 17:58:43.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,20 @@
 Revision history for Perl extension UUID.
 
-0.01  Thu Feb  8 06:07:59 2001
-       - original version; created by h2xs 1.20 with options
-               -A -n UUID
+0.05 Fri Dec 14 20:00:00 GMT 2012
+  - Took over maintaining (Lukas Zapletal - LZAP)
+  - Version bump (no changes)
+  - Releasing in the original location
+
+0.04 Wed Jul 22 20:17:26 PDT 2009
+  - Seems to be abandoned (again)
+  - Bump version number and upload to PAUSE
+
+0.03  Fri Jan 12 15:24:24 MST 2007
+  - Added Artistic license
+  - Took over maintaining (Colin Faber - CFABER)
 
+0.02  Unknown
+  - unknown changes
+
+0.01  Thu Feb  8 06:07:59 2001
+  - original version; created by h2xs 1.20 with options -A -n UUID
Only in Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05: License
diff -ru Unpack-1735/UUID-0.02/MANIFEST Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05/MANIFEST
--- Unpack-1735/UUID-0.02/MANIFEST      2001-02-08 15:07:59.000000000 +0100
+++ Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05/MANIFEST      2007-01-12 23:29:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 Changes
+License
 MANIFEST
 Makefile.PL
 UUID.pm
 UUID.xs
 test.pl
+META.yml                                 Module meta-data (added by MakeMaker)
Only in Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05: META.yml
diff -ru Unpack-1735/UUID-0.02/UUID.pm Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05/UUID.pm
--- Unpack-1735/UUID-0.02/UUID.pm       2001-03-01 17:25:57.000000000 +0100
+++ Unpack-8047/UUID-0.05/UUID.pm       2012-12-14 17:59:14.000000000 +0100
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 @EXPORT_OK = ( @{$EXPORT_TAGS{'all'}} );
 
-$VERSION = '0.02';
+$VERSION = '0.05';
 
 bootstrap UUID $VERSION;
 
@@ -46,8 +46,16 @@
 
 UUID::{generate, parse, unparse}
 
+=head1 LICENSE
+
+This library is licensed under the Perl Artistic License. Details of this license can be found within the 'License' text file
+
 =head1 AUTHOR
 
+Joseph N. Hall <joseph.nathan.hall at gmail.com>
+
+Colin Faber <cfaber at clusterfs.com>
+
 Peter J. Braam <braam at mountainviewdata.com>
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO
---snap---

If nobody objects, I'd at least import 0.05 into our git repo (but
won't upload it immediately without consent due to the current Perl
5.18 transition).

		Regards, Axel
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