> On Jun 9, 2015, at 8:46 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagalt...@gmx.de> wrote: > > * John Macdonald <john.macdon...@oicr.on.ca> [2015-06-08 21:05]: >> We rebuild our environment very night, including downloading all cpan >> modules anew (automatically getting the latest one if it has been >> updated). So, if anyone else has a similar environment and does >> a similar autofetch, then they would be impacted (although in such >> cases, they would probably already have converted to the renamed new >> module). > > Note that modules exist on forever on BackPAN. “Deleted” modules are > only slightly less easy to download than non-deleted ones. The main > effect of deletion is to de-index the tarball in question, making it > nearly impossible to find unless you go looking for it specifically. > > (Though this is a little less true now with metacpan.org, which lists > BackPAN releases of a distribution alongside the ones still on PAUSE. > Only once every release of a distribution is deleted off PAUSE does it > become unlikely to be found by undirected search.)
I should also add that if you use cpan.metacpan.org as your mirror, then you'll be able to download deleted modules as well, since our CPAN is also a BackPAN. The module still won't be in the index, but it will be available for download. Olaf
