Mark Veltzer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I was told to refer this question to the two addresses above. *>After fixing a few issues in Compress::Bzip2 I noticed that the module is no *>longer maintained (the author indicates in the README that he may not have *>time for this maintainance, the module is two years old, it no longer *>compiles on modern Linux boxes and the emails to the author are rejected *>becuase the email address is not valid anymore). *> *>Can I start maintaining it ? (I already have a new version). *>What is the procedure for such a request ? Is this the right email to ask *>such a question on ?
Have you contacted the author or made a reasonable attempt to do so? http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_maintain_module may be helpful in explaining the rather loose process we have for this. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Compress-Bzip2 shows the module last upddated 27 June of this year. We encourage authors to work this sort of thing out agreeably between themselves. Also, you may want to submit a "FAIL" report for the Linux platform via the CPAN testers. See http://testers.cpan.org/ and use the script for generating reports. e.
