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Id: 101777
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  Tue Jan 27 12:50:53 2015 ether [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: no repository listed in metadata
Among other things, this means that this distribution isn't being included in the monthly PR challenge :( See here for other tooling issues: http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Net-DNS
  Sun Feb 08 12:36:50 2015 rwfranks [...] acm.org - Correspondence added
From: rwfranks [...] acm.org
On Tue Jan 27 12:50:53 2015, ETHER wrote: Show quoted text
> Among other things, this means that this distribution isn't being > included in the monthly PR challenge :( >
Net::DNS is published in CPAN, bugs reported via CPAN RT, which has proved sufficient for the past 18 years. Listing the repository in metadata provides no benefit to end-users, so there is no compelling reason to do so. Show quoted text
> See here for other tooling issues: > http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Net-DNS
These are CPANTS imaginary Net::DNS tooling issues, specifically: 1) There is no requirement for the Net::DNS distro version number to be in any way related to the versions of the 60+ components which have version histories of their own in a subversion repository. 2) There is nothing inherently wrong with omitting warning pragmas. Package authors have the last say about what goes in or stays out, and are free to ignore gratuitous "advice" from well-meaning but misguided third parties. We have discussed this topic before. I suggest you re-read what I said then.
  Sun Feb 08 12:36:51 2015 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sun Feb 08 15:39:17 2015 rt-cpan [...] trout.me.uk - Correspondence added
On Sun Feb 08 12:36:50 2015, rwfranks@acm.org wrote: Show quoted text
> Listing the repository in metadata provides no benefit to end-users, > so there is no compelling reason to do so.
I regularly use repository metadata to check out the latest version of things I'm planning to send a patch to, and I find that benefit compelling wrt my own dists. There are few more depressing things than receiving a patch and having to say "thanks, bur that's already fixed in trunk".
  Wed Feb 11 04:32:38 2015 NLNETLABS [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
We have mentioned our subversion repository in the README for humans.
  Wed Feb 11 04:32:39 2015 NLNETLABS [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'