Archive::Zip - 'unauthorized' release.

[Ralf Corsepius]

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 I started working down Chris's excellent list of outdated modules, and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