Latest stumbling block:

* The Metabase for CT 2.0 is organized around
AUTHOR/DISTNAME-VERSION.ARCHIVE (i.e. author + tarball) as the only
real unique ID on CPAN.

* Historical CPAN Testers reports don't actually contain that
information -- all they generally have is DISTNAME-VERSION

That's easy enough to fix going forward, but it makes importing
history difficult -- and it even makes testing the Metabase difficult
as I have to shave yaks in CPAN::Reporter and Test::Reporter to pass
the full author/tarball path

My thought: get a full list of all tarballs on backpan create a
mapping table -- hopefully, there are few cases of duplicate
distname-version.

Q1: does that exist or could it be produced easily?

Q2: any thoughts on how that could be either kept up to date or
web-queryable for ongoing mapping of "version 1" reports as they are
produced?

-- David

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