[Melbourne-pm] Goddamnit, CPAN authors, why?!

[Toby Wintermute]

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.