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[perl #122228] Date::Parse is neither a "core" module nor on CPAN (?)

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From:
Tony Cook via RT
Date:
July 21, 2014 01:33
Subject:
[perl #122228] Date::Parse is neither a "core" module nor on CPAN (?)
Message ID:
rt-4.0.18-20379-1405906423-995.122228-15-0@perl.org
On Fri Jul 04 17:24:39 2014, jim.avera@gmail.com wrote:
> I wanted to submit a bug on Date::Time::str2time, and perlbug
> claimed it was not a "core" Perl module (even though it seems to
> be distributed with Perl), and said to search for it at
> http://rt.cpan.org
> 
> However at rt.cpan.org searching for "Date::Time" or "Date-Time"
> (without quotes) gives an error "No distribution '...' in the system".
> 
> Can someone give a clue how to find the module on CPAN
> (and update perlbug to give that hint)?

Your subject mentions Date::Parse (which does have str2time()) but your body text says you want to report a bug in Date::Time::str2time, which doesn't exist in Date::Time.

The only change I can see making to perlbug[1] would be to suggest searching metacpan.org or search.cpan.org instead of rt.cpan.org, both because rt.cpan.org isn't good at mapping module names to distribution names (except for the trivial s/::/-/g case), and because not all distributions track their issues on rt.cpan.org.

Tony

[1] being the only part of the process p5p has any control over

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via perlbug:  queue: perl5 status: open
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=122228

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