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Id: 107525
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Module-Metadata
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Owner: ether [...] cpan.org
Requestors: cjm [...] cpan.org
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Broken in: 1.000028-TRIAL
Fixed in: 1.000032-TRIAL

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  Sat Oct 03 15:53:36 2015 cjm [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Reports package "main" for pure-POD files
In version 1.000027 and earlier, $metadata->name() would return the empty string after analyzing a file containing only POD. Trial versions 1.000028 and 1.000029 return "main" instead. This caused an issue for one of my modules (http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/4f4e4d86-6934-11e5-8225-ee19d1d03245) I was able to work around the issue, but I doubt I was the only one depending on the old behavior. I can see a reason for returning "main" for scripts, but it doesn't make as much sense for POD-only files. I suggest that if the filename ends with ".pod" and there is no package statement, then name() should continue to return the empty string.
  Sat Oct 03 17:26:05 2015 ether [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Sat Apr 23 18:38:43 2016 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On 2015-10-03 12:53:36, CJM wrote: Show quoted text
> In version 1.000027 and earlier, $metadata->name() would return the > empty string after analyzing a file containing only POD. Trial > versions 1.000028 and 1.000029 return "main" instead. This caused an > issue for one of my modules > (http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/4f4e4d86-6934-11e5-8225- > ee19d1d03245) > > I was able to work around the issue, but I doubt I was the only one > depending on the old behavior. I can see a reason for returning > "main" for scripts, but it doesn't make as much sense for POD-only > files. > > I suggest that if the filename ends with ".pod" and there is no > package statement, then name() should continue to return the empty > string.
This should be fixed in 1.000032-TRIAL (and first regressed in 1.000028-TRIAL, and has never been in a stable release).
  Sat Apr 23 18:38:44 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Apr 23 18:38:50 2016 ether [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Fri Apr 29 20:53:22 2016 ether [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 1.000032-TRIAL added