On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:07:22PM +0100, Lee wrote: > Here's the mail I got back.
Okay, so it's not being maintained upstream. This means that I'm probably not going to add any feature patches to Debian, since I don't want to become the defacto upstream maintainer. If someone takes it over on CPAN then it may be a different matter. Since it's mainly feature enhancements rather than bugfixes it's probably not necessary to remove the module from Debian altogether, although that's a risk if bugs to become apparent later. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Dominic. > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: GraphViz module for Perl > Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 10:37:46 +0000 > From: Léon Brocard <a...@astray.com> > To: Lee <lee-in-ber...@web.de> > > On 10 November 2010 22:57, Lee <lee-in-ber...@web.de> wrote: >> Hi Leon, >> >> I noticed that on rt.cpan.org that there are a few patches available for >> your graphviz module. Some are even a few years old. This is why I ask you >> how your maintainance plans are for this module. Are you still interested in >> maintaining it? If you still are, I have a few patches in the line which >> would bring some more options of graphviz to this module. > > I've realised that the module is at the wrong level of abstraction: it > should really be just a .dot file parser and generator, and clever > things should be layered above. Hence all the patches which break > functionality for other users. That's why I'm no longer maintaining > it. > > Regards, Leon. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
