Developers of Sympa

[Marc Chantreux <address@concealed>]

hello,


On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 04:17:13PM +0200, Luc Didry wrote:
> After cpanfile has been officialy accepted (merged), you could backpan
> Task::Sympa, but to me, there is no hurry to do it now.

i realize i wasn't clear on this:

i'm sure that people who are used to perl toolchain will prefer it over
the system packages and we are developpers... we all love plackup :)

but to me, unix distro packagers are persons we really should care a lot
because distro packaging is the best way to enlist new users and get lot
of feedback so i really would like us to ease there job.

the way i see it (but i'm not good at packaging), as long as there is
a Task::Sympa on cpan, some can

    dh-make-perl --build --cpan Task::Sympa

to have a good start. i don't know if this tooling exists with carton.
Also using aptitude install libtask-sympa-perl instead of carton should
could be a good way to spot and report bugs to distro packagers.

i really like the way the Task::Kensho is maintained and shipped both on
cpan and debian and that was the way i wanted to do things but i failed
to open this topic with the other members of the list.

regards,
marc