>  Now I am not sure exactly what I am expecting to get fixed here, I guess 
>  it boils down to how things are generally done with ppd packages.

This particular problem was a bug in the PPM publishing process that was 
recently fixed.  It will take some time to determine which PPMs are 
affected, and to re-publish them with correct PPDs.

>  I am not sure who is responsible for maintaining the Active State ppm 
>  repository or even that my evaluation of the situation is correct, but 
>  can someone check this out?

The MIME-tools PPM, for both 5.6 and 5.8, should now be fixed.

Cheers,
TJ

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