Re: Thoughts on Markdown::Render

gregor herrmann <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jul 2024 21:23:59 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.perl
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On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:16 +1200, Andrew Ruthven wrote:

> > * Out of curiosity: Why the opts="pgpmode=none" in d/watch?
> I wanted to stop uscan from complaining about no GPG sigs, and as a first
> attempt to make lintian happy.

Oh, I see.
Typically we ignore this hint from lintian (but of course your
override is fine a well).

> > * Remark/question: we have no copyright holder anywhere. As a
> >   workaround, we typically copy the "Berne Convention" comment from
> >   https://perl-team.pages.debian.net/copyright.html#Berne_Convention
> >   into debian/copyright (done). But the question remains who the
> >   author(s) actually is/are? You picked 'Rob Lauer
> >   <[email protected]>' which looks right from looking at
> >   lib/Markdown/Render.pm and ChangeLog and the git log but
> >   Makefile.PL has
> >   AUTHOR           => 'BIGFOOT <[email protected]>'
> >   Might be an oversight / copypaste error but things like this raise
> >   ftp-masters' eyebrows :)
> >   So maybe either ask upstream for clarification (and put this in
> >   d/copyright), or extend the Comment I've added with a sentence
> >   explaining the situation.
> Yeah, good question. I couldn't find a copyright statement in the code
> either. BIGFOOT is Rob Lauer's CPAN username -
> https://metacpan.org/author/BIGFOOT . 

Ha, I missed that important detail.


So I guess the package is ready :)


Cheers,
gregor

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