Packaging CPAN modules for Fedora, the Oslo QA Hackathon, CPAN::Porters

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:16:14AM +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> * Ralf Corsepius [07/03/2008 10:53] :
> >
> > To put it bluntly: Perl-dists in Fedora are more or less community-only
> > maintained, i.e. inclusion of perl-dists in Fedora is more or less
> > community demand-driven => There is little demand for these remaining
> > 12000 packages, probably because hardly anybody needs them.
> 
> I've got a handful of Perl modules that I've rolled into rpms and I
> seriously doubt I'm the only one. How does one ask for a perl module
> to be packaged ?

If you want to package it yourself and become a fedora contributor, you
should look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

The main page is at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers

There is also a wishlist for packages, but I doubt it makes much sense
for perl modules.

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Pat