[Bug 8398] VERSION information not provided for all submodules

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Bill Cole <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Bill Cole <[email protected]> ---
There is no working mechanism for treating the children of Mail::SpamAssass=
in
as independent submodules, as they are all released as part of an integrated
release. There's no support for mixing modules from multiple releases or do=
ing
partial upgrades. 3rd-party plugins obviously need to manage their own
versioning.=20

Bug #6422 addressed a related problem (VERSION=3D'bogus') by simply removin=
g the
variable altogether. Only one of the modules involved there (Dns.pm) is sho=
wing
up in a 'cpan -O' scan, so clearly there is some way to ignore them.=20

However, it's not clear to me *what* we would need to do to silence cpan in
this circumstance. It certainly should not be scanning our submodules for
versions, as they don't have their own.

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