Bug #132127 for PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar: This distribution is problematic

Thu Mar 12 14:21:03 2020 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

This distribution is problematic

There are a number of CPAN distributions which use Foo, Bar or Foo::Bar as dummy module names assuming that these do not exist, and fail if these are actually installed. Some related tickets: * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132077 * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131973 * https://github.com/doy/class-refresh/issues/4 * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131207 Especially smoker systems which install every uploaded CPAN distribution will generate fail reports for these modules. And these fail reports are virtually useless, and may create "wrong" BBC candidates in the http://analysis.cpantesters.org/beforemaintrelease list. Maybe a better approach would be that the PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar does not install these modules, but actually act only as a placeholder in the PAUSE permission list, so nobody could create CPAN distributions with these modules. Maybe it could even delete these modules from site_perl if they are already installed.

Thu Mar 12 14:21:30 2020 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Reference to ticket #132077 added

Thu Mar 12 14:21:40 2020 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Reference to ticket #131973 added

Thu Mar 12 14:21:56 2020 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Reference to ticket #131207 added

Thu Mar 12 21:36:17 2020 PERLANCAR [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:21:03 GMT, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text

> There are a number of CPAN distributions which use Foo, Bar or > Foo::Bar as dummy module names assuming that these do not exist, and > fail if these are actually installed. Some related tickets: > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132077 > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131973 > * https://github.com/doy/class-refresh/issues/4 > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131207 > > Especially smoker systems which install every uploaded CPAN > distribution will generate fail reports for these modules. And these > fail reports are virtually useless, and may create "wrong" BBC > candidates in the http://analysis.cpantesters.org/beforemaintrelease > list. > > Maybe a better approach would be that the PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar does not > install these modules, but actually act only as a placeholder in the > PAUSE permission list, so nobody could create CPAN distributions with > these modules. Maybe it could even delete these modules from site_perl > if they are already installed.

I see. I'll remove this from PAUSE then.

Thu Mar 12 21:36:18 2020 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Mar 12 21:36:18 2020 PERLANCAR [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Sat Mar 14 03:21:24 2020 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Reference by ticket #132140 added

Mon Mar 16 17:13:27 2020 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2020-03-12 21:36:17, PERLANCAR wrote: Show quoted text

> On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:21:03 GMT, SREZIC wrote:

> > There are a number of CPAN distributions which use Foo, Bar or > > Foo::Bar as dummy module names assuming that these do not exist, and > > fail if these are actually installed. Some related tickets: > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132077 > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131973 > > * https://github.com/doy/class-refresh/issues/4 > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131207 > > > > Especially smoker systems which install every uploaded CPAN > > distribution will generate fail reports for these modules. And these > > fail reports are virtually useless, and may create "wrong" BBC > > candidates in the http://analysis.cpantesters.org/beforemaintrelease > > list. > > > > Maybe a better approach would be that the PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar does not > > install these modules, but actually act only as a placeholder in the > > PAUSE permission list, so nobody could create CPAN distributions with > > these modules. Maybe it could even delete these modules from site_perl > > if they are already installed.

> > I see. I'll remove this from PAUSE then.

Thanks. I deleted the installed modules on my smokers.

Thu Apr 16 21:39:00 2020 perlancar [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #132127] This distribution is problematic
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:38:42 +0700
To:	bug-PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Perl Ancar <perlancar [...] gmail.com>

Sorry, got uploaded again by mistake due to scheduled upload. Have just issued a PAUSE delete again. On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 4:13 AM Slaven_Rezic via RT < bug-PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Queue: PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132127 > > > On 2020-03-12 21:36:17, PERLANCAR wrote:

> > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:21:03 GMT, SREZIC wrote:

> > > There are a number of CPAN distributions which use Foo, Bar or > > > Foo::Bar as dummy module names assuming that these do not exist, and > > > fail if these are actually installed. Some related tickets: > > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132077 > > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131973 > > > * https://github.com/doy/class-refresh/issues/4 > > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131207 > > > > > > Especially smoker systems which install every uploaded CPAN > > > distribution will generate fail reports for these modules. And these > > > fail reports are virtually useless, and may create "wrong" BBC > > > candidates in the http://analysis.cpantesters.org/beforemaintrelease > > > list. > > > > > > Maybe a better approach would be that the PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar does not > > > install these modules, but actually act only as a placeholder in the > > > PAUSE permission list, so nobody could create CPAN distributions with > > > these modules. Maybe it could even delete these modules from site_perl > > > if they are already installed.

> > > > I see. I'll remove this from PAUSE then.

> > Thanks. I deleted the installed modules on my smokers. > >

Fri Apr 17 02:55:07 2020 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks for the notice. I run the deletion script again on my smokers. Regards, Slaven On 2020-04-16 21:39:00, perlancar@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text

> Sorry, got uploaded again by mistake due to scheduled upload. Have just > issued a PAUSE delete again. > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 4:13 AM Slaven_Rezic via RT < > bug-PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar@rt.cpan.org> wrote: >

> > Queue: PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar > > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132127 > > > > > On 2020-03-12 21:36:17, PERLANCAR wrote:

> > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:21:03 GMT, SREZIC wrote:

> > > > There are a number of CPAN distributions which use Foo, Bar or > > > > Foo::Bar as dummy module names assuming that these do not exist, and > > > > fail if these are actually installed. Some related tickets: > > > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132077 > > > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131973 > > > > * https://github.com/doy/class-refresh/issues/4 > > > > * https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131207 > > > > > > > > Especially smoker systems which install every uploaded CPAN > > > > distribution will generate fail reports for these modules. And these > > > > fail reports are virtually useless, and may create "wrong" BBC > > > > candidates in the http://analysis.cpantesters.org/beforemaintrelease > > > > list. > > > > > > > > Maybe a better approach would be that the PERLANCAR-Foo-Bar does not > > > > install these modules, but actually act only as a placeholder in the > > > > PAUSE permission list, so nobody could create CPAN distributions with > > > > these modules. Maybe it could even delete these modules from site_perl > > > > if they are already installed.

> > > > > > I see. I'll remove this from PAUSE then.

> > > > Thanks. I deleted the installed modules on my smokers. > > > >