Re: Module Removal Process

Aaron Mitti <[email protected]> wrote:

> My question is what was the process that gets modules removed, for what
> reasons etc? Also, if I end up maintaining this script for my company,
> would it be customary for someone like myself to resumbit it to CPAN via
> PAUSE and maintain it, or should I just let it die publicly ?

Modules are removed when their author delete them from the CPAN using
the PAUSE interface. But an archive is always kept in the BackPAN
    http://backpan.cpan.org/

You can use the module Parse::BACKPAN::Packages that Leon Brocard wrote
in order to recreate index and install old modules.
    http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-BACKPAN-Packages/

And for reviving old modules, you can try to contact the author, and if
he doesn't answer, just publish it again and ask to be transfered the
appropriate rights in PAUSE and RT.


HTH

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