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From:
Christian Walde
Date:
October 16, 2016 20:23
Subject:
[perl #129896] the maintainership/upstream situation of theCwd/File::Spec dist is very unclear
Message ID:
rt-4.0.24-31828-1476643745-1892.129896-75-0@perl.org
# New Ticket Created by  "Christian Walde" 
# Please include the string:  [perl #129896]
# in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. 
# <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129896 >


This is a bug report for perl from walde.christian@gmail.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.18.4.


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I ran into a bug in Cwd and while trying to figure out who's responsible,  
who can help with fixing it, where to fix it, and other related facts, i  
found that the situation of the entire dist is very unclear.

The dist itself still claims Ken Williams is the maintainer.

The dist itself on sco and metacpan points at  
https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=PathTools

Said page lists FLORA, KJALB, KWILLIAMS, RJBS, SMUELLER as releasers.

The RT queue has 69 open tickets (more than resolved), most of them over 3  
years old old.

The most recent releaser has been RJBS, presumably in his capacity of  
pumpking.

RJBS claims he doesn't have a lot of expertise to offer.

The official repository according to RJBS is blead in /dist/PathTools.

The committers to that have been a wide variety of perl5porters.

Relatedly, the lack of link to source repo, and some confusion about  
responsibility has also been discussed here:  
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116342


As such the questions i ask of p5p is:

Is p5p collectively currently the responsible maintainer?

If not, who is?

If so, should the ticket queue be moved over to perlbug, and the dist  
point at perlbug as well?

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Flags:
     category=library
     severity=medium
     module=File::Spec
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Site configuration information for perl 5.18.4:

Configured by strawberry-perl at Thu Oct  2 12:12:07 2014.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 18 subversion 4) configuration:

   Platform:
     osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.3, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int
     uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.18.4.1 #1 Thu Oct  2 12:10:29 2014 i386'
     config_args='undef'
     hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
     useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
     useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
     use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
     usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
   Compiler:
     cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32  -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS  
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO  
-fno-strict-aliasing -mms-bitfields',
     optimize='-s -O2',
     cppflags='-DWIN32'
     ccversion='', gccversion='4.7.3', gccosandvers=''
     intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
     d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
     ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long  
long', lseeksize=8
     alignbytes=8, prototype=define
   Linker and Libraries:
     ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE"  
-L"C:\strawberry\c\lib"'
     libpth=C:\strawberry\c\lib C:\strawberry\c\i686-w64-mingw32\lib  
C:\strawberry\c\lib\gcc\i686-w64-mingw32\4.7.3
     libs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32  
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr  
-lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
     perllibs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32  
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr  
-lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
     libc=, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl518.a
     gnulibc_version=''
   Dynamic Linking:
     dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
     cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s -L"C:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE"  
-L"C:\strawberry\c\lib"'

Locally applied patches:


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@INC for perl 5.18.4:
     C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int
     C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib
     C:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
     C:/strawberry/perl/lib
     .

---
Environment for perl 5.18.4:
     CYGWIN=nodosfilewarning
     HOME (unset)
     LANG=en_US.utf8
     LANGUAGE (unset)
     LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
     LOGDIR (unset)
     PATH=C:\Program Files  
(x86)\ImageMagick-6.9.5-Q16;c:\python27\;c:\python27\scripts;c:\programdata\oracle\java\javapath;c:\windows\system32;c:\perl\site\bin;c:\perl\bin;c:\program  
files\intel\wifi\bin\;c:\program files\common  
files\intel\wirelesscommon\;c:\program  
files\openvpn\bin;c:\windows;c:\windows\system32\wbem;c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\;c:\program  
files (x86)\skype\phone\;c:\program files (x86)\miktex  
2.9\miktex\bin\;c:\program files\git\cmd;c:\program files  
(x86)\intel\opencl sdk\2.0\bin\x86;c:\program files (x86)\intel\opencl  
sdk\2.0\bin\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL  
SDK\2.0\bin\x86;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\OpenCL  
SDK\2.0\bin\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Windows  
Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program  
Files\TSVN\bin;C:\strawberry\c\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\strawberry\perl\bin;c:\cygwin\bin;C:\Program  
Files\PostgreSQL\pg95\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA  
Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program  
Files\FileBot\;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program  
Files\TortoiseGit\bin;C:\Program  
Files\Git\cmd;C:\KFFirstAide;C:\Users\Mithaldu\AppData\Roaming\npm;d:\android\android-ndk-r10d\;C:\Program  
Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common  
Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;d:\j\MeCab\bin\;C:\Program Files  
(x86)\Diffuse;C:\Users\Mithaldu\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps
     PERL_BADLANG (unset)
     SHELL (unset)


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