Archive::Zip - 'unauthorized' release.

[Robin Norwood]

Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> writes:

>>>>>> "RN" == Robin Norwood <rnorwood at redhat.com> 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

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Robin Norwood
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