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  Fri May 16 12:38:44 2014 TIMB [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Add a blacklist of distros to ignore in responses from metacpan
Sometimes people accidentally upload distributions that contain many modules from cpan that shouldn't be part of the distro. Two examples are: HTTP-CookieMonster-0.06 DateTime-ISO8601-Interval-0.001 These cause lots of false matches in dist-surveyor. Often it works out the right answer anyway, but not always. So these broken distros can cause more problems beyond spurious warnings like: Test::FailWarnings seen in DateTime-ISO8601-Interval-0.001 - now overridden by Test-FailWarnings-0.004 TAP::Formatter::Color seen in HTTP-CookieMonster-0.06 - now overridden by Test-Harness-3.30 It would be nice to find an automated way to avoid this but meanwhile a command like option that would let the user blacklist problematic distros would be very helpful.
  Tue Dec 30 15:48:14 2014 thaljef [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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> Sometimes people accidentally upload distributions that contain many > modules from cpan that shouldn't be part of the distro.
Even though you might consider these distros "broken", a user might still have them installed. So completely blacklisting the distro doesn't seem like the right solution. In my experience, this happens most often with authors that use perlbrew and local::lib. So usually, you can just ignore any package in the distro that lives under the local/lib directory.
  Tue Dec 30 15:48:14 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Dec 31 03:16:33 2014 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On 2014-12-30 15:48:14, THALJEF wrote: Show quoted text
> > Sometimes people accidentally upload distributions that contain many > > modules from cpan that shouldn't be part of the distro.
> > Even though you might consider these distros "broken", a user might > still have them installed. So completely blacklisting the distro > doesn't seem like the right solution. > > In my experience, this happens most often with authors that use > perlbrew and local::lib. So usually, you can just ignore any package > in the distro that lives under the local/lib directory.
Maybe it's enough to just ignore modules marked as "UNAUTHORIZED"?