Hi Dominique: I was looking into using the module at a later date, but have no current plans to do so. I have not personally checked the code. Making the module available to a wider audience of developers who may end up using it is a goal to me, as I think it's important to provide as many easily installable modules as possible.
On the other hand, Gregor and others have mentioned that there is a cost incurred with each new package brought into Debian. In particular, the packages have to be maintained and kept current according to the upstream versions, and there is work for ftp-masters to review and approve incoming modules. For these reasons, I've decided to mark the module as UNRELEASED. However, it currently remains in the pkg-perl repository (and I'll keep it up to date if there are new releases) in case someone decides to release it later. I hope that this is an acceptable resolution for the rest of the team - keeping the module around in the SVN repository but not trying to publish it yet. Cheers, Jonathan On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Dominique Dumont <dominique.dum...@hp.com> wrote: > Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> >> >> >> * Package name : libclass-byos-perl >> Version : 0.01 >> Upstream Author : Paul Evans <leon...@leonerd.org.uk> >> * URL : CPAN >> * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) >> Programming Lang: Perl >> Description : Perl module to load OS-specific subclasses at runtime > > This class is very new, and provides a functionality which is rather > abstract. > > Class::ByOS is implemented in 24 lines of Perl (as shown by sloccount). > > Is the provided functionality worth the packaging effort ? > > Why do you want to package this module ? > > > > -- > Dominique Dumont > "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they > need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner > > irc: > domidumont at irc.freenode.net > ddumont at irc.debian.org > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
