Re: XMLTV and CPAN Modules

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:

>I'd like to package XMLTV and some of its associated CPAN modules for
>Debian.

Hmm, I believe someone else was going to try that (and there are
certainly packages for Fink).  I've cc'd this message to xmltv-devel
so that others who might be doing the same task can contact you.

>In addition to XMLTV itself, I would like to package Lingua::Preferred, 
>Log::TraceMessages and Term::ProgressBar.

Lingua::Preferred is an abomination, but seemingly the only module to
do the job of choosing between languages.  (I would like to replace it
someday by breaking out http language negotiation into a separate
library.)  But it is currently used by xmltv.

Log::TraceMessages isn't actually needed, but package it if you
want.

Term::ProgressBar: actually version 2.0 is maintained by somebody else
- make sure your CPAN mirror has caught up and shows this version in
modules/by-module/Log/.

>The documentation for Lingua:Preferred doesn't include a copyright or
>license statement that I could find.

Whoops, let me fix that.  In the meantime you can take it that it's
distributed under the same terms as perl itself.

-- 
Ed Avis <ed@xxxxxxxxxxx>