From:	David Golden	Date:	Wed Oct  1 11:37:15 2008
Subject:	Re: Please do not test BACKPAN

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Barbie <barbie@missbarbell.co.uk> wrote:
> Agreed, and I understand the delay of PAUSE too. But the distribution is
> not on CPAN :) However, CPAN-Mini repos are sync'ed up manually rather
> than the automated mirror updates ... usually. I just wanted to ensure
> that anyone using CPAN-Mini repo ensures they do a refresh before
> testing, or at least daily if they are testing continuously.

Right. Personally, I just have a cron job running every 4 hours:

    MAILTO=xdaveg@example.com
    # refresh minicpan
    23 */4 * * *  /home/david/perl/5.10.0/bin/minicpan -q

Anyone smoking using a mirror should do something similar.

> From the email I've had, the implication is that this
> distribution/version was deleted a few weeks ago, although I cannot
> guarantee that at the moment. I'm waiting for him to confirm it.

One possibility is that the tests were run in the deletion window, but
reports were saved to a file rather than sent immediately.  I did that
for about 5,000 reports after I tested Module::Build 0.2808_01 and _05
for regression tests.  Some reports were probably a week old by the
time I emailed them in.

-- David