Re: Maintaining libdr-sundown-perl in Debian Perl team?

Hi Andreas, Hi Dmitry,

Andreas Tille, on 2024-08-21:
> the package libdr-sundown-perl showed up in todays list of potential Bug
> of the Day[1].  I picked a different bug but since the package showed up
> I was astonished to see a Perl package outside the Perl team.  Thus
> asking here quickly for the reasons.  Is there any intend to maintain
> this package in Perl team?

While it certainly eases Perl modules maintenance to maintain
them within the Debian Perl Team, this is by no means mandatory.
The Debian Med Team does have a couple of perl modules under its
umbrella as you know.  ;)

> It was showing up since it has no Vcs URL
> set and I would love to investigate for the reasons.  BTW, the package
> has a popcon of zero votes.

Out of curiosity, I had a look at DR::SunDown on CPAN[1], and
noted Dmitry is also upstream of the module, which probably
explains the specific maintenance.  I don't know how relevant
SunDown is today; popcon value sure doesn't hint for a trendy
package.  On the other hand the package hasn't direly needed
maintenance to maintain itself in testing for more than ten
years without uploads; by the way, it seems that it flown below
Holger's radar when proceeding to mass rebuilds, and probably
has no buildinfo file.

[1]: https://metacpan.org/pod/DR::SunDown

I don't know whether this needs a course of action.  Preserve
the status quo and the module may last a few more years in the
archive as long as dependencies do not cause breaking changes.
Unless Dmitry has objections, the module could be maintained
within the Perl Team, no problem; we have routines to take over
packages in a couple of commands.  Otherwise, lack of upstream
activity for the past ten years (both on libsundown and
DR:SunDown fronts) and zero popcon could also hint that the
package could be candidate for removal of the archive, but I
lack enough context to tell for sure.

Have a nice day,  :)
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