in reply to How can I call a class method of the object's parent class?
In regards to the first part of your question, looking at Curses::UI on CPAN, it does look like the maintainer is not active anymore, so I think it'd be great if you want to take over maintenance of the module. There is a prodecure for this, although it does take a little while - please see Taking over on pause.perl.org.
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