Re: Why don't CPAN.pm and cpanminus update modules, even if they know about newer modules?

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.

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Re^2: Why don't CPAN.pm and cpanminus update modules, even if they know about newer modules? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 04, 2011 at 03:23 UTC
You claimed such before, but what proof do you have that it makes a difference to the pause indexer? META.yml#author is only documented as being used for contact information, not for pause/modlist generation, so if this is the cause, it is a bug in the pause indexer and not in the module.	[reply]
Re^2: Why don't CPAN.pm and cpanminus update modules, even if they know about newer modules? by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 04, 2011 at 05:57 UTC
I think that's highly speculative. First the explanation doesn't apply to HTTP-DetectUserAgent, which hasn't changed author between releases and still isn't installed correctly. Second, there are plenty of modules that have multiple release managers, but where the META.{yaml,json} lists a single person consistently. For example Moose, last release by DOY, lists Stevan Little as the author in META.json. Perl 6 - second systems done right	[reply]