Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>>>> "RN" == Robin Norwood <rnorwood@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > RN> Is there a general policy for this sort of situation, and if not, > RN> should there be? > > I'm not sure we could make one. When upstream forks (or pseudo-forks > as seems to have happened here), we're going to have to figure out > what to do on a case-by-case basis. > > RN> Should something be added to the perl packaging guidelines, > > I don't see that any of the basic issues are perl-specific. Well, I was thinking something along the lines of "if a package is flagged as 'unauthorized' in CPAN, don't take it until you figure out why and verify that it is legitimate." But maybe that is assumed to be common sense. :-) -RN -- Robin Norwood Red Hat, Inc. "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching
