CPAN, cpanm, and PAUSE are alive and well. If you look closely at HTML::Template v2.10, you'll see that SAMTREGAR maintained it through v2.09; however, v2.10 is co-maintained by Michael Peters, cpan_id WONKO. I think the problem is that, looking at the lib, the author is listed as Sam Tregar, but in the Meta.yml, the author is listed as Michael Peters. I believe that it's a mistake in the module, not a bug in CPAN, cpanm, or PAUSE that's causing the problems.

In reply to Re: Why don't CPAN.pm and cpanminus update modules, even if they know about newer modules? by Khen1950fx
in thread Why don't CPAN.pm and cpanminus update modules, even if they know about newer modules? by moritz

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