There has been a recent incident where an author had deleted a distribution from CPAN, but is still receiving test reports for them (via the Daily Report).
I'm assuming that that tester in question is using a CPAN-Mini mirror or similar to retrieve the modules for testing. If this is the case for anyone testing, can you ensure you do a refresh before testing, in order to remove any distros that have been archived to BACKPAN. If you're unsure whether a distribution should be tested, then it might be worth making use of Parse-CPAN-Distributions [1], which I wrote for the Reports website to acknowledge what's really available on CPAN (and not just the latest version as per Parse-CPAN-Packages). If you are testing by accessing CPAN via the internet, then this should not be a problem. CPAN/CPANPLUS will just fail to retrieve the requested distribution. In future the Author Notification System will allow authors to only be notified of the latest version of a distribution. Until then, please ensure you're only testing what is on CPAN. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
