Bug #87044 for Dist-Zilla-Plugin-KwaliteeTests: existence of old distribution preventing old module in new distribution from appearing on MetaCPAN

Fri Jul 19 07:09:52 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

distribution not appearing on MetaCPAN

https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin "The resource you requested could not be found." Is there maybe a problem with the distribution's metadata? In any event I've also raised a MetaCPAN issue: https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/880

Fri Jul 19 07:10:12 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Reference to https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin added

Fri Jul 19 07:10:12 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Reference to https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/880 added

Fri Jul 19 16:39:07 2013 xenoterracide [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #87044] distribution not appearing on MetaCPAN
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:38:54 -0500
To:	bug-Dist-Zilla-Plugin-KwaliteeTests [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide [...] gmail.com>

https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-Kwalitee On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Alex Peters via RT <bug-Dist-Zilla-Plugin-KwaliteeTests@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Fri Jul 19 07:09:52 2013: Request 87044 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by LXP > Queue: Dist-Zilla-Plugin-KwaliteeTests > Subject: distribution not appearing on MetaCPAN > Broken in: 1.101420 > Severity: (no value) > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: lxp@cpan.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87044 > > > > https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin > "The resource you requested could not be found." > > Is there maybe a problem with the distribution's metadata? > > In any event I've also raised a MetaCPAN issue: > https://github.com/CPAN-API/metacpan-web/issues/880

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Fri Jul 19 16:39:08 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Jul 19 21:28:10 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Sat Jul 20 06:39:07 2013, XENO wrote: Show quoted text

> https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-Kwalitee

This explains part of the problem. I see that the newly-named distribution also has a Dist::Zilla::Plugin:: KwaliteeTests module marked as deprecated, i.e. two different available distributions are trying to write to the same module. This could be why MetaCPAN is having such trouble with the distribution of the old name, and indeed why it won't let anyone look at the old module in the new distribution. In addition to this, various tools in the toolchain are struggling with the situation: $ cpanm Dist::Zilla::Plugin::KwaliteeTests ! Finding Dist::Zilla::Plugin::KwaliteeTests on cpanmetadb failed. ...and dzil with the PrereqsClean plugin in use: [PrereqsClean] {Pass 2.1: Modules} ??? MetaCPAN can't even find module Dist::Zilla::Plugin::KwaliteeTests! I wonder whether the following course of action would fix everything up for everyone: 1. Remove the ::KwaliteeTests module from the -Test-Kwalitee distro. 2. Update the ::KwaliteeTests module in the old distro with the one from the new distro. 3. Make the new distro a dependency of the old distro. 4. Please "DEPRECATED" notices in the documentation of the old distro. 5. Re-release the old distro.

Fri Jul 19 21:40:49 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Sat Jul 20 11:28:10 2013, LXP wrote: Show quoted text

> I wonder whether the following course of action would fix everything > up for everyone: > > ...

Actually, perhaps just removing the old distribution from CPAN altogether would fix the problem since then there'd be only one definition of the old module, and it would be the "correct" old definition, and it would probably be searchable on MetaCPAN again.

Fri Jul 19 21:41:57 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Subject changed from 'distribution not appearing on MetaCPAN' to 'existence of old distribution preventing old module in new distribution from appearing on MetaCPAN'

Fri Jul 19 22:38:34 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Reference to https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin deleted

Fri Jul 19 22:38:34 2013 lxp [...] cpan.org - Reference to https://metacpan.org/release/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-KwaliteeTests added