Re: Where is ExtUtils-Install maintained?

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:22 PM, James E Keenan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Last month I sent this message to the perl5-porters mailing list.  I got
> no replies.  Does anyone on this list have thoughts on this?
>
> #####
> Two recently filed RT tickets ...
>
> https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121829
> https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122596
>
> ... led me to look for the source code for ExtUtils::Installed and
> ExtUtils::Packlist.  They're part of the ExtUtils-Install distribution
> which is distributed with core.
>
> In the core distro, ExtUtils-Install is found under 'cpan/', which
> suggests that it is *primarily* maintained on CPAN by one or more
> maintainers, and not maintained by P5P.
>
> However, when I go to http://search.cpan.org/~
> bingos/ExtUtils-Install-1.68/, I see that this distro's bug tracker is
> listed as http://rt.perl.org/rt3/ and its repository is listed as
> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/.  In other words, it's maintained in
> core not on cpan/.
>
> If so, then shouldn't ExtUtils-Install be under 'dist/' rather than
> 'cpan/' in the core distribution?
>
> From pod/perlsource.pod:
>
> dist: "This directory is for dual-life modules where the blead source is
> canonical."
>
> I'd like to clarify this before embarking on work on either of the two RTs
> cited above.
>

AFAIK it has recently been decided to move it from core, but as it hasn't
seen a release yet rt.cpan.org still thinks the upstream bugtracker is
rt.perl.org.

Leon