[Koha-devel] Modules only on CPAN

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Zeno Tajoli <z.tajoli at cineca.it> wrote:
> In my opinion Data::Pagination and Archive::Extract could be packages
> in http://debian.koha-community.org, the others no (because are only for
> developer).

There's a problem with packaging Data::Pagination -- there is no
copyright information documented with the module, meaning that a
package could not be accepted into Debian proper.  Attempts [1] by
Robin and Tomás to get the maintainer to supply copyright and license
statements have met with silence.

That isn't a technical bar to building a .deb and putting it up on
Koha's APT repo, but we should avoid doing so unless there is no other
choice.  However, there are other pagination modules available,
including at least one (Data::Page) that is already packaged for
Debian.  There's only one script that uses Data::Pagination (and a
module that imports it but doesn't use it), so making a switch
shouldn't be very time consuming.

It looks like Archive::Extract has been packaged for Jessie, so
presumably making a backport to host on our APT repo would be
feasible.

[1] https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80000

Regards,

Galen
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