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It's the License (Score:1)

by stu42j (6348) on 2007.03.08 13:46 (#53584) Homepage Journal

The reason is the
license [cpan.org]. Basically, Data::UUID doesn't have one.

Providing a mostly compatible API under the same name is probably a bad idea, though.

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  by stu42j (6348)
  
  Actually, the bug in question [debian.org] was supposed to be fixed in the Debian package. There is a patch in the source file but somehow it doesn't make it into the final package.
  
  It should really be fixed upstream [ossp.org].

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