Hi,
I'm one of the core developers for the BioPerl project.
We've had a persistent problem with users grabbing outdated versions of
our distributions from CPAN. For example, the distribution
bioperl-1.4.tar.gz is deprecated and is on backpan, as seen here:
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/B/BI/BIRNEY/
and yet in a search for bioperl through the cpan command-line interface,
bioperl-1.4.tar.gz turns up almost at the top of the list:
cpan[2]> i /bioperl/
Bundle Bundle::BioPerl (CRAFFI/Bundle-BioPerl-2.1.8.tar.gz)
Distribution BIRNEY/bioperl-1.4.tar.gz
Distribution BIRNEY/bioperl-db-0.1.tar.gz
[..snip..]
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Is there a way to prevent our old distributions from appearing in CPAN
search results?
It would be fine, for example, if they were removed from CPAN and
BackPAN completely (we have them archived elsewhere).
Thanks for any guidance,
Dave
