Over the last couple of months, I haven't been checking the verification log file, but have just started to go through it and noticed several instances where .ppm files have been tested by testers. The most popular one is 'Class-Prototyped'. These files are considered binary packages and are only for the PPM installer, NOT CPAN or CPANPLUS. There is an associated source tarball uploaded to CPAN, which should and is tested.
All those who have been testing these packages appear to be using CPAN-Reporter, so either your configuration needs updating, or perhaps there is somewhere in CPAN-Reporter that isn't matching the distributions correctly. The following are the only distribution uploads that can be reliably tested, anything else should be ignored: .tar.gz .tar.bz2 .tgz .zip If you need it a suitable regex would be: qr/(?:\.(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2)|tgz|zip))/; The code I've spotted in CPAN-Reporter looks to be doing the right thing, so I'm not sure where the problem lies. Although, I have noted that YACSmoke style is to ignore distributions before testing, but CPAN-Reporter is to only ignore after the package has been put through the test queue. This could be a red herring though. If people have their own startup scripts for deciding what to test, can you ensure that only packages with the above archive formats are allowed into your test queues. Thanks. Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
