On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 15:21 -0400, Robin Norwood wrote: > 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 I started working down Chris's excellent list of outdated modules, and 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. Which just seems to have happened ;) > 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? Release 1.20 ;) Adam just (Today, 2007-06-05) seems to have officially released 1.20 see: http://search.cpan.org/~adamk/Archive-Zip-1.20/ Ralf
