On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 14:38:48 -0500, Eduardo Santiago Munoz via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93263 >
>
> On Sat Feb 22 11:31:12 2014, gregoa@debian.org wrote:
> > In Debian we are currently applying the attached patch to Net-NIS.
> > We thought you might be interested in it, too.
>
> Thank you! In trying to apply it I realized that I ripped out the
> Net::NIS::Table code in 2007 because of a namespace problem: I do
> not actually own that in CPAN (it's a separate distribution, owned
> by the former owner of Net::NIS). But I never packaged or released
> a Net::NIS without ::Table, probably because of concern that it
> would break someone's code. Now, 6+ years later, I'm even more
> reluctant to ship a release that might break existing code. I'm
> going to have to think about this... maybe try to repackage and
> ship, and see what/if CPAN complains about, and take it from there.
Oh, I see.
Quite tricky indeed.
Show quoted text> And you probably thought this would be a trivial quick-fix :-)
Well, the fix itself for the current codebase was quite quick :)
Cheers,
gregor
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