Hi Russ, Thanks a lot for the quick response.
Am Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 10:04:11AM -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery: > Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes: > > > I'm currently checking packages that are packaging CPAN modules which > > are not maintained by the Debian Perl Group on Salsa whether it might > > make sense to hand these over to Debian Perl Group. I stumbled upon > > libnet-ldapapi-perl and can't find any good reason why not to move this > > package to a team that has a great tradition to make team wide changes > > and thus reducing the work for single maintainers. > > > In the past I've filed some ITS bugs for maintainers suspected to be > > MIA but I know at least for Russ this is not the case. Thus asking > > here before doing any work on the package first. > > Bill should weigh in here, but my first reaction is that for as long as > Bill wants to keep doing the primary maintenance and upstream > coordination, I think it would be easier to have this package not be > team-maintained. Bill has relevant direct personal contacts with upstream > and we work together to coordinate uploads and whatnot, and I think > there's some risk of team maintenance accidentally complicating things or > creating confusion. Perfectly as you prefer. I havn't seen the Perl team breaking someting but well, I was just asking (and documenting that you were asked for further reference). > I see there's a pending bug for a dependency fix; I'll try to take a look > at that soon. Sorry about missing that! No need to be sorry about this - finally we are volunteers. In my attempt to salvage packages I've seen way, way, way worse things. Kind regards and thank you for all your contributions Andreas. -- https://fam-tille.de
