Hi Bill and Russ,

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.

I'd volunteer to migrate your git repository[1] to Salsa (every DD
has push permissions to perl-team/modules), bring the packaging in
line with he Perl team policy and fix bug #1102826, if you agree to
this and will not insist into keeping the package outside the team
scope.  This is perfectly fine - just tag this bug wontfix or close
it - whatever you prefer.

Kind regards
    Andreas.

[1] https://github.com/whm/libnet-ldapapi-perl

Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> writes:

Hi Andreas,

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.

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!

Hi Russ,

Thanks a lot for the quick response.

Am Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 10:04:11AM -0700 schrieb Russ Allbery:

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).

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.