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From:Barbie Date:Wed Oct  1 06:43:35 2008
Subject:Please do not test BACKPAN
There has been a recent incident where an author had deleted a
distribution from CPAN, but is still receiving test reports for them
(via the Daily Report). 

I'm assuming that that tester in question is using a CPAN-Mini mirror or
similar to retrieve the modules for testing. If this is the case for
anyone testing, can you ensure you do a refresh before testing, in order
to remove any distros that have been archived to BACKPAN.

If you're unsure whether a distribution should be tested, then it might
be worth making use of Parse-CPAN-Distributions [1], which I wrote for
the Reports website to acknowledge what's really available on CPAN (and
not just the latest version as per Parse-CPAN-Packages).

If you are testing by accessing CPAN via the internet, then this should
not be a problem. CPAN/CPANPLUS will just fail to retrieve the requested
distribution.

In future the Author Notification System will allow authors to only be
notified of the latest version of a distribution. Until then, please
ensure you're only testing what is on CPAN.

Cheers,
Barbie.
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