Is cpan being purged?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Anyone notice way more 404s from cpan? It seems like things are being deleted. For example this went away recently and broke a bunch of reverse dependencies: metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Wiki

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Re: Is cpan being purged? by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 30, 2018 at 02:04 UTC
"Anyone notice way more 404s from cpan? Not really, and for sure not in this case. It doesn't show in the index. It does show in backPAN. See also the CPAN directory and backPAN links on the author page. Also https://metacpan.org/about/missing_modules	[reply]
Re: Is cpan being purged? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 30, 2018 at 03:21 UTC
Maybe your `cpan` is configured to use a defunct mirror? Launch `cpan` and run the `o conf init urllist` command. Don't forget to `o conf commit` before exiting.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Is cpan being purged? by liz (Monsignor) on Jul 30, 2018 at 09:32 UTC
FWIW, I have removed quite a few distributions from my steaming pile of abandonware, but CGI::Wiki is not one of them.	[reply]