Hi, I started working down Chris's excellent list of outdated modules, and came upon an interesting situation with Archive::Zip - the latest version (1.18) is flagged as 'unauthorized'. As near as I can tell, the new author (Adam Kennedy) seems to have taken over maintaining this module, but hasn't had the ownership transferred in CPAN. I sent Adam an email asking if he is going to fix this. Is there a general policy for this sort of situation, and if not, should there be? I think clearly we would want to avoid downloading such releases - part of the intent is to prevent people from uploading releases when they don't own the module, and obvious badness could occur if someone uploaded an unauthorized release with some sort of badness in the code. I don't think that's what's going on here (Adam owns quite a few modules on CPAN, and clearly has a track record). Should something be added to the perl packaging guidelines, and what do you think we should do in this instance, other than wait for a response from Adam? The latest 'authorized' version: http://search.cpan.org/~smpeters/Archive-Zip-1.16/ Adam's 'unauthorized' version: http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Archive-Zip-1.18/ -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
