From toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au  Wed Apr 30 20:13:54 2014
From: toby.corkindale at strategicdata.com.au (Toby Corkindale)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 13:13:54 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Goddamnit, CPAN authors, why?!
Message-ID: <5361BBF2.4000709@strategicdata.com.au>

For some reason, the author of Crypt::Password has deleted the module 
off CPAN entirely.
"Helpfully", cpanm somehow decides that the "stylehouse" module could 
provide Crypt::Password instead.. which it then dies on, as that module 
appears to be more of an art project than an actual module at the 
moment. (It's aim is to make an impressionist file browser, eventually)

https://metacpan.org/release/stylehouse

Needless to say, this presents two problems.
1) All modules depending upon Crypt::Password are now broken
2) cpanm's attempt to resolve the problem automatically just makes 
things even more confusing.


GAH!

/rant

From sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au  Wed Apr 30 20:26:21 2014
From: sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au (sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 13:26:21 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Goddamnit, CPAN authors, why?!
In-Reply-To: <5361BBF2.4000709@strategicdata.com.au>
References: <5361BBF2.4000709@strategicdata.com.au>
Message-ID: <1175A7D0A87D437D84426AFA4C3FA633@OwnerPC311012>

-----Original Message----- 
From: Toby Corkindale
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 1:13 PM
To: melbourne-pm
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Goddamnit, CPAN authors, why?!

> For some reason, the author of Crypt::Password has deleted the module off 
> CPAN entirely.

I still see Crypt-Password-0.28 at:
http://search.cpan.org/~drsteve/

And the source tarball downloaded fine for me.

Your mirror broken, perhaps ?  .... or is it just that *my* mirror hasn't 
yet realized that the module has been deleted ?

Cheers,
Rob


From tjc at wintrmute.net  Wed Apr 30 20:33:18 2014
From: tjc at wintrmute.net (Toby Wintermute)
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 13:33:18 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Goddamnit, CPAN authors, why?!
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	<1175A7D0A87D437D84426AFA4C3FA633@OwnerPC311012>
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On 1 May 2014 13:26,  <sisyphus1 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> -----Original Message----- From: Toby Corkindale
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 1:13 PM
> To: melbourne-pm
> Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Goddamnit, CPAN authors, why?!
>
>
>> For some reason, the author of Crypt::Password has deleted the module off
>> CPAN entirely.
>
>
> I still see Crypt-Password-0.28 at:
> http://search.cpan.org/~drsteve/
>
> And the source tarball downloaded fine for me.
>
> Your mirror broken, perhaps ?  .... or is it just that *my* mirror hasn't
> yet realized that the module has been deleted ?

compare to: https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt::Password (404)

Whatever API cpanm uses to locate packages seems to fail to find it as well.
I'm not sure what's going on there then.

From rob at eatenbyagrue.org  Wed Apr 30 20:56:04 2014
From: rob at eatenbyagrue.org (Robert Norris)
Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 13:56:04 +1000
Subject: [Melbourne-pm] Goddamnit, CPAN authors, why?!
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On Thu, May 1, 2014, at 01:33 PM, Toby Wintermute wrote:
> I'm not sure what's going on there then.

I do wonder if this is side-effect/screw-up after this:

  http://blogs.perl.org/users/brian_d_foy/2014/04/lets-delete-10000-files-from-cpan.html

I went in and deleted a few old versions of my packages. In typical
PAUSE style, there's nothing on the page to say "this one is current". I
had to go to each individual package page to see what the current
versions are, and then not delete them (couldn't remember some of them,
most of my stuff is years old).

I could totally see someone screwing up and deleting a "live" package
without realising it.

Rob N.