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Re: [perl-5.6.1] Bug in CPAN.pm

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From:
Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Date:
July 3, 2001 12:47
Subject:
Re: [perl-5.6.1] Bug in CPAN.pm
Message ID:
20010703144648.B9787@chaos.wustl.edu
Tim Jenness [t.jenness@jach.hawaii.edu] quoth:
*>
*>
*>Is it possible that the problem is caused by the version number in the
*>module itself not using the same convention as the tar file name?
*>
*>CGI is indexed on CPAN as 3.02, not 3.02_01 or something similar.
*>CGI.pm has a version number of '3.02'.
*>
*>The file generated by 'make dist' simply uses '3.02' so I assume Lincoln
*>renamed it before uploading to CPAN.

Hmmm. That's a good catch as I didn't see that :) The docs for CPAN.pm are
a little vague so I'll submit a patch to perhaps make it more clear that
the version '_' should be in both the module $VERSION and in the distname
as well. I suspect that is the root of the problem.

I don't know if Lincoln still reads P5P anymore so I'll copy him on this
so he can correct that.

e.

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