I just installed Statistics::Sequences, and watching the install process I noticed that Math::Cephes is an abandoned module.

When the installation was finished, I went to investigate what was up with Math::Cephes. It was immediately obvious what happened, as I remember when Randy Kobes died I seen news about it. I knew his name as I normally use the CPAN interface at UWinnipeg.

I think it would be nice if someone could at least alter the POD for packages that Randy Kobe "abandoned", to mention that he is no longer with us.

In reply to Re: Howto abandon rights to a cpan module and stop getting bug reports for it? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Howto abandon rights to a cpan module and stop getting bug reports for it? by Anonymous Monk

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