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Id: 49625
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: Module-Build

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: dolmen [...] cpan.org
Cc: Author
extracted
from
incorrectly
pod
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Severity: Unimportant
Broken in: 0.35_02
Fixed in: (no value)



CC: Author incorrectly extracted from pod
The heuristic to extract AUTHOR from POD is incorrect for the Module::Build distribution itself. "Development questions, bug reports, and patches should be sent to the Module-Build mailing list at" is not an author of Module::Build. Here is the POD in M::B ---- =head1 AUTHOR Ken Williams <kwilliams@cpan.org> Development questions, bug reports, and patches should be sent to the Module-Build mailing list at <module-build@perl.org>. Bug reports are also welcome at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Module-Build>. The latest development version is available from the Subversion repository at <https://svn.perl.org/modules/Module-Build/trunk/> =head1 COPYRIGHT ---- What we get in META.yml ---- author: - 'Ken Williams <kwilliams@cpan.org>' - "Development questions, bug reports, and patches should be sent to the\nModule-Build mailing list at <module-build@perl.org>." ----
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #49625]
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:57:21 -0400
To: bug-Module-Build [...] rt.cpan.org
From: David Golden <dagolden [...] cpan.org>
2009/9/11 Olivier 'dolmen' Mengué via RT <bug-Module-Build@rt.cpan.org>: Show quoted text
> What we get in META.yml > ---- > author: >  - 'Ken Williams <kwilliams@cpan.org>' >  - "Development questions, bug reports, and patches should be sent to > the\nModule-Build mailing list at <module-build@perl.org>."
This isn't actually prohibited by the META spec, and since it indicates a contact point, it's actually a reasonable piece of information to include. The current spec revision process will probably clarify the intent of the author field. After that is finished, that's probably the right time to address the heuristics. C.f. http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/CPAN_Meta_Spec_Proposals#Clarify_author_field -- David