I'll ask this again since I never got an answer the last time.

Why isn't this fix included with Perl 5.6.0? I suspect that "the fix" is included but that the release of Perl 5.6.x broke part of the fix so that the problem has reappeared.

My (often fuzzy) memory recalls this chronology:

• "CPAN suddenly upgrading Perl" bug fixed and it required both changes to the CPAN.pm module and to some features of the CPAN itself (the collection of web/ftp servers).
• Reports of people upgrading just CPAN.pm and the problem going away.
• Reduced frequency of reports of this problem
• Release of Perl 5.6.0
• Increase in frequency of reports again

I'm in particular suspicious that the CPAN-web/ftp-site side of the fix got dropped/confused/undone by the release of Perl 5.6.0 and/or 5.6.1.

BTW, I did do some work trying to check this on my own. In particular, the latest (according to search.cpan.org) CPAN.pm's ChangeLog file says nothing of this fix (and hasn't been updated since March 1999).

I'd dig deeper but I never use CPAN.pm myself and am only interested in this bug as it relates to being able to help others when they run into this problem. (:

        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")

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